Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by uptown » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
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Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by lolsal » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:23 PM UTC

I'm not a huge fan of Slack or Hipchat either way, but I can't help but lament that there is less competition for enterprise chat solutions now.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by mehblahwhatevs » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:27 PM UTC

> Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, said Butterfield: “There’s fewer choices for people.”

Strange quote.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by slivym » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

Am I the only one who sees this as anti-competitive? This is basically collusion - Atlassian agreeing not to compete in chat in return for a payment from Slack. It almost seems like we're intent on making literally every mistake we made with traditional businesses, but with electronic products.

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Post by optimusclimb » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

Hipchat took standard IRC, and added some interface fluff, youtube links, and emojis. They achieved great market footprint.

Then Slack starts up later - makes literally the same exact product, and manages to surpass, and eventually subsume Hipchat.

Crazy.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by fl0wenol » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:29 PM UTC

And whoosh there goes another option for non-cloud-based enterprise chat.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by thedangler » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:30 PM UTC

We were using hipchat, worked fine with our custom integrations and workflow. Stopped working when they switched to stride ( had to do with version of jira we are on) Now that my integrations are all most working again I have to probably look at using mattermost.

We don't want to use slack.

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Post by arjun27 » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:31 PM UTC

This reminds me of Aaron Levie’s recent take on Kara Swisher’s podcast - on how enterprise software is going to be either about Microsoft (jack of trades) or about a collection of smaller companies (specialists in their fields) integrated with one and other. Slack and Atlassian focusing on what makes them great and working together makes a lot of sense

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by paxy » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:32 PM UTC

fl0wenol wrote: post #6

And whoosh there goes another option for non-cloud-based enterprise chat.

Would be cool if they re-released Hipchat as an on-prem Slack

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by schappim » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 8:32 PM UTC

>> We are purchasing the IP for Hipchat Cloud and Stride

It would be nice if Slack took a leaf out of the Hipchat play book and made a native (non-electron) Mac app.