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Firstly, Atlassian have had 10 years and all the money they could want to make Cloud good. They've frittered it all away chasing UX fads and creating dumbed-down 'next-gen' interfaces. Shutting down Server will let Atlassian "focus on Cloud" ; – but will having more cooks in the kitchen really help? Does anyone remember The Mythical Man-Month?
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As painful as it is, perhaps Atlassian's announcement is for the best. Server development has been stagnant for many years, to the . The rising frustration of customers , as can be seen on the open feature requests on https://jira.atlassian.com. Saying "we're not developing this any more" is more honest than continuing to take people's money without fulfilling the implicit promise to keep developing features.
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