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Atlassian about to dip over the next few years as firms around the world slowly remove themselves from their ecosystem of products.


Not to mention a CEO who is more interested in activities outside the company like the green energy transition and politics.

As an Aussie I always wanted Atlassian to succeed as we have so few tech companies at that scale or larger. Now I view them as another Oracle. Now they innovate little, they keep ratchetting up prices, pushing deployments to cloud where they make more money. Nickel and dime you for what should be core features (SAML Auth?). They aren't coming up with anything new to keep the value in the ecosystem. They buy applications in, spend a little to make some cross integration and then drop down to a slower development Cadence.


I think that Atlassian's core issues stem from the CEO who is more interested in activities outside the company. The lack of vision starts from the top and flows down through the rest of the company.

If MCB is so interested in those things, then he should do the right thing which is to retire from Atlassian and go whole-heartedly after those noble causes.


Their core customers are unfortunately just as dysfunctional and slow-learning. Think Boeing, etc. Witness:

https://jobs.boeing.com/job/annapolis-junction/jira-administ...


Right. Feels similar in a way to an ongoing conflict elsewhere... There is what happens now, and what happens over the next decade because people have lost fundamental trust in you.




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