Atlassian hikes prices for most cloudy JIRA and Confluence users Fresh from encouraging users to buy bundles of its stuff, Atlassian is changing the way it charges for cloudy versions of its software and says the result will be that “the majority of customers will receive an increase in their bill” of about US$2/month/user for JIRA and Confluence products. Sean Regan, the company's head of …
VSTS is about 10x the cost, and it's functionality, even in VS2017 isn't a patch on the atlassian products. Have you tried to use VSTS issue tracking? It's truly horrendous,
Their original build system is antiquated, and their Bamboo/TeamCity copy ( their "NG" build system, is a poor copy of Bamboo/Teamity offerings, and very limited outside of building Microsoft stuff). TFS itself is a confusing mess for users,looks abysmal and has a bland confusing web UI.
We have both TFS and JIRA/Bitbucket/Bamboo/Confluence, and it's not even a close call. Atlassian are substantially cheaper and substantially better, and our hosted setup has better uptme too.
It's all pretty subjective I think. I personally find TFS's online stuff far more pleasing to the eye, far easier to work with and far *less* confusing than Jira's. Granted, that's only the most recent iteration (TFS 2017 / VSTS) but nevertheless, I'd drop Jira in a heartbeat if I could. But that's the thing, use whatever works best for you :)
Depends on what you need to do. As a free toy, bugzilla is fine. However if you need full tacking of issue, code changes, what issues and code changes are in what branches and what builds, then bugzilla is woefully inadequate. Bugzilla workflows are pretty basic, and not even in the same league as JIRA.
I guess not. I hope you get your workflow transitions right first time before you've started your first project as when you need to re-do an active workflow because you forgot one then only Jira can make life this painful for you. But as it's Jira we're told its workflows are the best and to carry on drinking the kool aid.
If you want to track branches and builds in Bugzilla you make flags for them.
But then again Bugzilla is an issue tracker, not some PM's wet dream which runs with the absurd idea that a whole project can be specified as a bunch of tickets that need clearing ASAP.
JIRA/Confluence is definitely less expensive than Microsoft's current offerings, feature for feature. Not sure why this is even a debate. Source: We use both at my firm: One dev team of similar size / change scope, vs. another similarly sized team. We haven't forced the original MS team to change to JIRA because the view isn't worth the climb at our scale.
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