Atlassian rules

One of my favorite software companies, Atlassian, has just announced that they're reviving their Starter program and that this time it is here to stay. Under the terms of the starter program you can get licenses for up to six products at 10$ a piece. If that isn't a bargain I don't know what is. And they're not shortchanging the buyers, since you'll get:

• a full featured product
• 1 year of support and maintenance
• you'll be able to renew the support each year for 10$
• an easy to follow install guide, Here be Dragons, with the promise of getting a unique t-shirt when you complete the quest
• some freebies to complement the products (although a voluntary 10$ donation to Room to Read is encouraged as the 10$ of the other product are also donated in full to this charity - way to go Atlassian!)

The six products to choose from are:

• Jira: an excellent issue tracker, that I've been using on and off for the last 7 years
• Confluence: a great wiki/content sharing product, which I also have been using for about 2 years now
• GreenHopper: an interesting Jira plugin that supports the agile methodology that the company I work for has tested for some time and is now using in production
• Bamboo: looks like a full-featured continuous integration server that we could use instead of Hudson
• FishEye: I think our current company CVS server is in dire need for this product. Maybe I should propose this sometime to our CTO
• Crowd: this is a SSO/IDM product that we're currently evaluating as a less complicated replacement for Sun IDM when not all the bells and whistles of Sun IDM are needed

So even though these licenses are only for 10 users/plans/committers (50 users in the case of Crowd) they are perfect for small teams or even if you're tinkering on your own at home. Confluence, Jira and Bamboo for 10$ a pop are sounding very interesting to use on my own Skunk works.