"Of the so-called big-five tech companies in the US, Amazon is the only one without a messaging platform." https://chime.aws/
Chime is for video. Slack is for text.
How do you figure?
Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean available to slack? Ofc, how else would search work?
I'd imagine that they have separate, encrypted siloed search indexes for each paying organization. Why would someone put sensitive information on Slack otherwise?
Few organizations care. And those that do get left in the dust by organizations that don't.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd imagine that they have separate, encrypted siloed search indexes for each paying organization. Why would someone put sensitive information on Slack otherwise?
Few organizations care. And those that do get left in the dust by organizations that don't.
> Few organizations care. And those that do get left in the dust by organizations that don't.
Are you saying that organizations that care to keep secrets get left behind by those that don't?
That sounds kind of ridiculous.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
They might be less interested in the app itself, and more interested in the giant corpus of conversation stored therein.
Which brings the point, who would ever sign on to use Slack/continue to use Slack when Bezos & Co. could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations?
Is it very different from running all your sensitive company code on Bezos & Co servers?
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean available to slack? Ofc, how else would search work?
I'd imagine that they have separate, encrypted siloed search indexes for each paying organization. Why would someone put sensitive information on Slack otherwise?
From what I've seen, there are plenty of companies that keep sensitive data out-of-band for just that reason, and have policies to keep it out of their Slacks.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest most of those faded because they let the product fade.
I think they let the product fade because they weren't making very much money. It hard to have a vibrant product when you can't pay the rent.
MSN messenger and Yahoo both had significant funds.
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
They might be less interested in the app itself, and more interested in the giant corpus of conversation stored therein.
Which brings the point, who would ever sign on to use Slack/continue to use Slack when Bezos & Co. could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations?
Who would ever sign on to Slack/continue to use Slack when could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations? It's not like Slack can't do so now, if they chose.
Companies that don't want to entrust their sensitive conversations to Slack, etc., opt to use on-site Hipchat servers, or other means of communication. Amazon buying Slack doesn't significantly alter their calculus.
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#108I wonder if the price/valuation will be so high if they have a large and growing _paying_ customer base or if they assume to monetize the customer data in the long term via other means (e.g. selling aggregate data for ad purposes).
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#109Amazon's been a prudent steward of its cash and shareholder value. I'd be really surprised if it spent this sum over Slack & encourage Bezos to go get his head checked. Messaging platforms come and go. Many better ways to spend $9B for Amazon.
Seriously? More like Amazon has been lucky with one business, but otherwise completely reckless with their cash and shareholder value and has been propped up massively by speculation on future performance driven by pie in the sky thinking devoid of critical analysis. This is exactly the kind of shit they do all the time.
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which brings the point, who would ever sign on to use Slack/continue to use Slack when Bezos & Co. could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations?
Who would ever sign on to Slack/continue to use Slack when could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations? It's not like Slack can't do so now, if they chose. Companies that don't want to entrust their sensitive conversations to Slack, etc., opt to use on-site Hipchat servers, or other means of communication. Amazon buying Slack doesn't significantly alter their calculus.
Slack isn't in the business of offering competing services based on the data that flows through their systems. Something you can't exactly say is true with Amazon.