With JIRA, I find that entering tasks takes far too long, it's quite jarring to my workflow. When I notice bugs, I want to enter them as quick as possible and then continue with my day, I don't want to spend 5 minutes entering a bug, so this becomes a bit of a deal breaker to me.
I use Trello all day, every day, the simplicity of it is such a strong feature, it's hard to turn working with Trello into busy work where you're spending more time managing it than actually using it and this is a trap I fall into with a lot of solutions.
I don't believe so, because GCHQ is still part of the civil service, so to quite an extent, their hands are tied by the pay scales.
I know they offer a performance based monthly bonus to sweeten the deal, but still, beyond a certain point, I would have serious doubts in their ability to compete with the private sector.
The problem they're going to face is that not enough people are going to need over 512GB of online storage space to want to pay.
Only the most dedicated of digitisers are going to ever exceed 512GB, that's hundreds of movies, tens of thousands of albums and the average user is never even going to approach it.
From a brief look through my checkout account, web based orders make up ~1% of my total orders and I seem to have been paid for them as normal, although the shipped light is not lit on a couple of them.
I think a far more interesting thing to know would be profits.
Revenue is essentially a vanity measure. A company with $10m in monthly revenues with a 50% profit margin is making the same amount of money as a company with $100m in revenue and a 5% profit margin and I think it's important for the tech community to remember this.
As a current uni student, I have access to both DreamSpark and academic alliance, I probably wouldn't even have windows on my dev computer otherwise, let alone any of the dev tools and the being able to access free quality software from Microsoft really improved my opinion of them and it's important to get that mindshare of new developers if they want to stay such a huge force.