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Yeah but do these downloaded software meet the following criteria:

- Insanely cheap ($10) where an employee would be willing to pay for it out their own pocket.

- The software actually makes the employee/departments life easier.

- The downloaded version doesn't contain any crippled support.

Atlassian's whole approach to enterprise is to create internal advocates. They don't care about the revenue that is generated from a $10 sale. They just want to plant seeds in companies so that when they do end up purchasing more than 10 user licenses, they know they can charge a shit load more.

I'm not sure if Atlassian is the first to implement this pricing model, but I believe it is the future for most enterprise sales.



Yes it's been done before and other companies do it - Atlassian is the most successful at this because their audience imho.




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