The main arguments it presents against JIRA seems to be:
* Its slow - well maybe, although IME its adequate. Our current project has just over 5000 tickets and I rarely have speed issues when filtering, searching etc. Other teams in the company have projects with many times more tickets than ours.
* It doesn't look great - I guess its not the prettiest thing, there are certainly areas that could use some work but its not terrible. It gets the job done.
* Its expensive - I don't know how much we pay for JIRA, but I know it integrates well with the other Atlassian products we use, Confluence, Fisheye, Bamboo etc. That integration is worth a premium in my opinion.
* Its slow - well maybe, although IME its adequate. Our current project has just over 5000 tickets and I rarely have speed issues when filtering, searching etc. Other teams in the company have projects with many times more tickets than ours.
* It doesn't look great - I guess its not the prettiest thing, there are certainly areas that could use some work but its not terrible. It gets the job done.
* Its expensive - I don't know how much we pay for JIRA, but I know it integrates well with the other Atlassian products we use, Confluence, Fisheye, Bamboo etc. That integration is worth a premium in my opinion.