Love the pig!

This week only, Atlassian, the company I work for, has a special offer for JIRA and Confluence. For just $5 each, you get 5-user licenses of the products, including technical support. It’s the same deal that the big guys get, but tailored for small teams and small business. My favorite bit: all the money raised goes to Room to Read, a charity that helps children in developing countries get schools and libraries.

There have been many fantastic Twitters so far about the offer:

An amazing $5 deal on Jira and Confluence from Atlassian for small orgs, I use these fantastic products every day… http://tr.im/j4nA

- scottmanley

@tarasis atlassian have personal licenses available too, which didn’t work for my needs, but the $5 plan definitely hits the sweet spot

- janeylicious

Oh, nice. Atlassian is donating proceeds for its starter license of JIRA and Confluence ($5/ea) to charity. http://snurl.com/gb7ys

- ITSinsider

Check out the offer… and hurry, because the sale ends on Friday this week!

We couldn’t really say much at the time. We knew SharePoint was a big deal, and that Microsoft was touting SharePoint’s new “Web 2.0″ features like blogs and wikis, we had watched Scoble’s interview with SharePoint engineers. But what we didn’t know was what it was really going to be like.

The new Connector is an awesome answer. It’s a great answer for SharePoint users who want a full-time enterprise wiki, and for Confluence users who need to integrate these two collaboration solutions. It’s a big win for Atlassian (along with Newsgator) to be included in Microsoft’s inaugural announcement of SharePoint as a Web 2.0 platform.

Now, hopefully Jonathan, Brendan, Zach, Mike and everyone else working on the product and announcement can get some sleep.

Here are some blogs by other Atlassians on the topic:

• Mike
• Jeffrey
• Stewart