And whoosh there goes another option for non-cloud-based enterprise chat.
Weren't both Slack's and Atlassian's offerings cloud-based?
Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
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#12Am 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.
"Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, said Butterfield: “There’s fewer choices for people.”"
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#13Can you use self host slack?
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#14Although it reduces competition in short term, it’s likely to give more competition in the long term by creating a strong competitor to Microsoft.
And based on the numbers in the article, it seems like Atlassian had less than 4% marketshare (Slack expects single digit growth - and assuming they have around 50% of the market)
This deals seems like the last step before a full - and in competitive terms logical - merger between Slack and Atlassian.
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#15>> 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.
What's wrong with the electron app?
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#16Woah, this is huge. Atlassian is really going for the "everything a tech shop needs" gold.
Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
#17Am 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.
It looks more like a product acquisition than collusion.
> Slack will pay an undisclosed amount over the next three years to acquire Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride products
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#18>> 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.
What's wrong with the electron app?
I personally don't have a problem with it, but a lot of people have a problem with it taking up a bit of system resources, primarily ram.
Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
#19Can you use self host slack?
To my knowledge no. That is going to be an issue for current users of Hipchat Server/Data Center.
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#20Woah, this is huge. Atlassian is really going for the "everything a tech shop needs" gold.
The exact opposite, Atlassian is selling and retreating.