Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive
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#2Because they use Yahoo! Messenger, not because it will impact the oil market in any other way.
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#3Sounds like an opportunity for someone to buy yahoo messenger, make it work the way the oil industry wants it, and sell it to them as an industry specific chat service. No need to bring the rest of Yahoo along for the ride.
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#4This article seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill. Just use one of the competing, recordable chat services if Yahoo! Messenger disappears?
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#5This is insane. Why does guy who digs a hole and sell's oil need to care about high tech?!
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#6They can afford to build a messaging tool. Come on.
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#7They aren't the only ones who want Yahoo to survive. There are tens of people at Yahoo that want them to survive, too.
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#8Sounds like an opportunity for someone to buy yahoo messenger, make it work the way the oil industry wants it, and sell it to them as an industry specific chat service. No need to bring the rest of Yahoo along for the ride.
Definitely the best way to ease the transition between chat services.
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#9I know someone in the oil industry and was surprised by this as well, but it is absolutely true. They really do use Yahoo a lot.
When I asked why they haven't switched, I was given a response similar to what the articles says, "that all regulatory and internal controls are addressed"
I believe natural gas communication is still done by AIM a lot.
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#10When an industry is so reliant on one service, it's very difficult to shift an entire industry to a new platform. Segmentation is a real thing.
A good example I'm familiar with is within electronic sports (competitive video-games): almost every executive, player, personality, etc has been using Skype since ~2010. Unfortunately, Skype has a large number of security vulnerabilities and users can be subjected by DDOS attacks- which is especially important if such an attack impacts their performance in a game, or interrupts a livestream. Even though there are, arguably, better products being created that serve the same purpose as Skype and that don't fall victim to this problem (Discord, Slack), those within the industry don't want to segment themselves from everyone else.