Wed 4 Feb 2004
Fat Cows from Down Under
Posted by dkaz under Technology
I have a hard time understanding how Atlassian can generate revenue
off of projects like Confluence and FatCow.
Come on, how do justify building a Wiki-plugin that adds support for web test
macros? Talk about a developer-friendly management team.
This is sick. Frankly, I’m jealous - it seems that Mike & the gang are having
way too much fun down there.
I really hope they kick some ass so their business model catches on.
February 4th, 2004 at 9:00 am
Actually they are trying to turn the latest ideas in
software developement into products. Fat Cow seems to be “inspired” by http://fitnesse.org/.
Who knows if there plans works ?
February 4th, 2004 at 9:49 pm
Well, thanks for your comments (I’m not sure if they’re compliments or not?).
As for making money off FatCow - we’re not really intending to. It was built for two reasons - firstly we needed a tool to do web application testing in house (we build a lot of web apps!) and none of the existing ones suited our needs. - secondly we wanted to show off how easy it is to extend Confluence to do interesting things. Hence FatCow came about. It won’t ever make money, but hopefully it’s useful to other people. If not, well it’s useful to us
FatCow is really a ‘port’ of FitNesse if you like - we started using FitNesse a while ago, but it’s some of the worst written code I’ve ever seen so we ended up rewriting it (at first partly, then in the end completely).
Hope that gives you a little more of an idea? Always happy to discuss anything here or via email.
Cheers,
Mike