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Jon Silvers

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Enterprise 2.0 Call for Papers

I just signed Atlassian up to be an exhibitor at the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Conference (the event used to be called the Collaborative Technologies Conference). It takes place this year in Boston from June 18-21. They’re are looking for additional case studies from companies using wikis and other collaborative technologies. If you’re interested in getting […]

Web SSO versus Enterprise SSO

We launched Crowd, a single sign-on and identity management solution, a few months ago. There tends to be a lot of confusion around the SSO marketplace. There are many systems that range in price from free to six figures, some of which require vast amounts of energy to install and integrate and others that take […]

Short Stories

Here are a few anecdotes from the last couple days that don’t lend themselves to a full blog each, but which I wanted to capture: A passenger on my train ride home one evening saw me proofreading the March Atlassian Newsletter. “Do you work with Atlassian?” That turned into a nice 15-minute conversation with Mike, […]

BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs: Atlassian’s Mike and Scott

A nice one for the scrapbooks! Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes made the cover of BusinessWeek.com as the top young entrepreneurs in technology. The article cites a VC who said “the company should be more focused on growth.” Mike’s response to that: when given an option between a focus on growth versus quality, […]

Java User Group (JUG) Sponsorships

Many companies have sponsorships for their respective user groups. In addition to Atlassian User Group sponsorship, we also support Java User Groups. Over the past few years we’ve given out over 2,500 non-profit and open source licenses, and though I don’t know the exact number, many have gone to JUGs. In addition to licenses, we’re […]