Comments on: Atlassian's "Stimulus Package": Get JIRA & Confluence for $5/Year

By: remote control software

remote control software — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:16:24 +0000

I don’t think the promotion name is tacky, I’ve already seen plenty of billboards with companies offering “stimulus packages” that are a lot less valuable than this one. Good thinking by Atlassian.

By: GM22

GM22 — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:34:49 +0000

I created a start up batch script that also updates DNS @ zoneedit.com. http://www.ausbusiness.net/review/confluence-jira-amazon-ec2-zoneedit/

Hope it can be useful for someone.

GM22

By: Redwood City Startup » Blog Archive » New kindle coming soon

Redwood City Startup » Blog Archive » New kindle coming soon — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:13:53 +0000

[...] markups to some other format. I took advantage of Atlassian’s sale of Confluence and Jira for $5 a piece awhile back and have set up a personal wiki for keeping track of my own notes. Even if it was a simple text [...]

By: Zviki

Zviki — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:50:25 +0000

@Daniel,

I played a little with EC2 pricing. Your post (great post, btw) states it clearly: monthly cost would be about $70 per month for 24/7 server, down to about $20 for operating the sever 45 hours a week. Kind of loses its’ purpose, though. You can’t have a wiki for customers which is not 24/7.

Great initiative, nevertheless.

By: Daniel Freeman

Daniel Freeman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:32:16 +0000

@Zviki – Check out this blog post on how to set up JIRA and Confluence on Amazon EC2: http://tr.im/jlzl
We created an “Instant Atlassian” tool to make setup easier and estimate server costs to be $5/week.

By: Troy Peterson

Troy Peterson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:13:51 +0000

I love the price… but the name of the sales promotion is tacky. Might as well called it “Got Jira” :)

By: Zviki

Zviki — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:17:58 +0000

The main drawback is server resources. Since both products are Java base, you will need server resources.

Getting a VPS suitable for the server (the requirements state you need about 512MB RAM for JIRA) will start at $40 per month. You can use Amazon EC2 but your cost is elastic, too. Would love to hear how much people are paying for this on EC2.

By: Bruce T

Bruce T — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:55:48 +0000

I bought a license + 24 months of support for both products for $30 – you can’t beat that, even if it’s just to have a “sandbox” environment to learn on and add to my skills. If I can put them to use on a project or two (I typically use Trac or Mantis), so much the better.

By: Michael Buckingham

Michael Buckingham — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:53:07 +0000

Thanks, for this post, Confluence is an awesome wiki (I’ve used at least a dozen of them) and we use this at work. I have a small business where I’m the IT guy and when they wanted a wiki, I was hoping I could leverage my Confluence skills but it was just too expensive to justify. This made my day.

By: Red Matthews

Red Matthews — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:40:49 +0000

RT is free, if you are paying an admin already. Not sure why one pays for these over RT and Twiki.

I imagine there are good reasons, I just don’t know them. Anyone?