Why did Atlassian acquire Bitbucket?
Atlassian makes collaboration and developer software, and focuses on providing tools that help technical teams build great products. Bitbucket shares Atlassian’s passion for code collaboration, and has built a very successful hosted code collaboration service, atop Mercurial’s distributed version controls system (DVCS). We think Bitbucket is a perfect complement to our existing portfolio of Atlassian developer tools – from issue tracking with JIRA to code reviews with Crucible – and an important on-ramp for individual developers or small teams to add tools to support their development processes as their teams and code bases grow.
