Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
Not being available on-prem continues to show how poorly Atlassian treats its enterprise customers.<p>* No feature parity<p>* No pre-built packages or support for configuration &#x2F; infrastructure management - everything must be packaged completely from scratch, without recommended package specifications or Dockerfiles etc. to build off of. Nope - &quot;here&#x27;s a tar.gz. Have fun!&quot;<p>* No proper enterprise support and no access to source code. We have a couple feature requests which are <i>deep, burning desires</i> which we&#x27;d love to either throw money or developers at but we can&#x27;t because we have no relationship with Atlassian and we have no idea if Atlassian will ever address them because they don&#x27;t publish product roadmaps.<p>* Essential enterprise products like Crowd and Bamboo get short shrift and make it clear that communication inside Atlassian is lacking.<p>Example: Bitbucket Data Center shipped with support to enforce GPG-signed commits. But because Crowd won&#x27;t manage user GPG public keys, administrators can&#x27;t revoke user keys without disabling access to Bitbucket entirely (so, GPG keys never get revoked), and Bamboo administrators can&#x27;t enforce that project builds only use Bitbucket repositories with GPG-enforcement enabled, so for enterprises which actually need to <i>enforce</i> audit trails (for compliance, for building trust with deeply conservative customers...), the feature is worthless.<p>Another example: Bamboo supports elastic build agents... but only on AWS. No support for vSphere, OpenStack, or heck any other public clouds like GCE or Azure. No Dockerized build agents for build jobs which don&#x27;t themselves need Docker.<p>Another example: Crowd is utterly lacking of any kind of investment. Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition? Supported. OpenID Connect? 2FA? RSA SecurID? Yubikeys? lolnope. It finally got active-active clustering this year, though, so maybe that&#x27;s a good sign?<p>It&#x27;s too bad their suite is in a class of its own because for all its faults, it&#x27;s in a class of its own. Everything else sucks, one way or another.