Archive for July 1st, 2009

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Vote to Bring Back Atlassian’s Stimulus Package

July 1, 2009

I can’t believe I missed it! Atlassian was selling, for a limited time, $5 5-user licenses for their products. Asides from the fact that I would probably buy them all just to have a stable of things available to play with, I could have really used Confluence and JIRA in one of the non-profits I work with (it falls, I think, under the commercial non-profit definition as it helps small, generally family-owned companies in Spain figure out things with exports, fairs, conventions, publications and such in a specific industry, even tho their budget is tiny tiny tiny, certainly not in line with current licensing prices).

As it stands today, I installed one of those cheap Compaq Presarios running OpenSolaris 2009.06 so they can have something that resembles a server. They’re embracing OpenOffice, and I’m working towards getting XWiki in a state where it’s usable for them, but I would very much prefer Confluence (not because XWiki doesn’t work but because I’m quite familair with Confluence and my support role is served much better by Confluence, which by the way, rocks).

So if you have a minute, vote and contribute.