Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud Atlassian's share price has taken a sharp dive after the Australian collaboration corporation revealed decent results, but predicted its on-prem products would grow faster than its cloud. As The Register recently reported, Atlassian is months away from ending support for its Server products, leaving users with a choice of …
Server is growing due to changing the licencing structure.
Cloud is growing slower than server and its growth comes from what seems like reluctant conversions from server, few customers start with cloud.
The rest are trying to get the hell out of Dodge?
Atlassian appears to have fundamentally misunderstood their customers, their customers want on prem and those software businesses that are silly enough to put their crown jewels in a vice would just put them on a private github instance and let copilot have at it.
I'm in the process of downsizing stuff for the company and I'm astonished at how much SaaS/cloud many companies seem to have. This quickly adds up and can be difficult to control. Yes, installing and running software isn't always easy but the costs don't tend to spiral like they do in the cloud. Wouldn't want to draw too many conclusions from our single case but I can imagine that SaaS vendors may soon see revenues dip noticeably.
This is a proper catalogue of fail.
I believe they still don't have any UK located cloud which makes some transitions problematic.
Not all plugins are available on the cloud platform so if you've invested time and money customising your setup you either have to lose that customisation or redo it.
And supposedly the migration is far from easy.
So are you saying engineers like having critical infrastructre (And yes, I'd say the thingamajig that entire teams of very expensive people rely on for organising their work is pretty critical, yeah) on a server they fully have under control unless there is a really, really, really, REALLY good reason not to?
I'm shocked! I'd say even flabbergasted isn't off the table at this point!
And there was me thinking that Atlassian had pushed customers into the cloud, by making their on-prem solutions horrible Java lumps that are a pita to administer, backup, update, etc. so that any solution where someone else has to deal with it was a better option.
The cloud is someone else's computer, which means it's someone else's problem.
Means we can't use the cloud for many projects.
Any cloud services we are allowed to use have to be hosted within the UK (not EU).
Majority of our customers require us to control the servers and access too because they have the same requirement imposed on them.
Some projects are so locked down we struggle to support development environments.
While many of the old hands on here will grumble about "somebody else's computer" etc. whenever a cloud service is mentioned, for customers that are small and looking for a Jira/Confluence type product for the first time the entry cost for cloud is far more attractive than on-prem and will stay that way until they get pretty large.
For many orgs the cloud version of Jira does everything they need if they started out there. Migrating anything heavily-integrated from on-prem is going to be a pain, especially if it's been allowed to sprawl, and the supplier often can't do the heavy lifting in getting you there.
For Confluence I can't understand why anyone would want it on-prem, especially with its security history.
For Confluence I can't understand why anyone would want it
There, FTFY
if you are a large organisation (say > 1000 employees) or constrained by regulatory pressure, how can you EVER migrate to cloud successfully?
For an individual, yes - having a small website / Wordpress instance hosted in cloud may cost less than running a machine at home - but not at scale.
"While many of the old hands on here will grumble about "somebody else's computer" etc. whenever a cloud service is mentioned, for customers that are small and looking for a Jira/Confluence type product for the first time the entry cost for cloud is far more attractive than on-prem and will stay that way until they get pretty large."
FYI, just before the big push to force customers to the cloud, Atlassian did offer small teams licenses (up to 25 users IIRC) of Jira and Confluence for some $50 per year.
Cloud became cheaper only after they killed that option.
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