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Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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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.

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

"Competition is for losers"..."Always Aim for a Monopoly" -- Peter Thiel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6K8PZxyQfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUzvo4HwojU

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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What's wrong with the electron app?

It reduces the available resources for my dev vms (read: actual work) by a disproportionate amount

Especially if you are signed into multiple workspaces. The performance degradation increases by a factor of two for each workspace I am signed into.

That said, there are ways to create performant electron apps (vscode as an example), just seems like slack isn't able to do that for some reason.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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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

Levie is wrong. His personal bias is showing: an over optimism that Box can survive as an independent long-term. It's going to be Microsoft and other giants. There's no scenario where Slack remains an independent company, for the exact same reason there was never a scenario where Github remained an independent company. It'll be surprising if Slack is still independent three years from now. It's perpetual consolidatio…

Alas, I mostly agree... But what about Basecamp or Mailchimp for example?

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Huge problem for on-prem Hipchat customers. Plenty of customers out there not willing to put all their internal communications on the other side of their firewall, and now have to migrate. Slack doesn't have an on-prem option. Microsoft Teams doesn't have an on-prem option. What are enterprises supposed to use, RocketChat? Matrix? With no clear migration path? Really poor move on Atlassian's part. It would be one thi…

> Slack doesn't have an on-prem option. Microsoft Teams doesn't have an on-prem option. What are enterprises supposed to use, RocketChat? Matrix? With no clear migration path?

Mattermost[1], with a clear migration path from Slack, at least.

[1] https://mattermost.com/

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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> "and are providing a migration path to Slack for all our customers." Well, not all of your customers. Unless Slack is introducing a self-hosted version? They've already nuked the page on the self-hosted hipchat offering, which now redirects to https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack Which is a complete bummer. Slack isn't an option for us.

It is possible to get a confidentiality agreement with Slack over and above the normal terms if you negotiate with them.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Huge problem for on-prem Hipchat customers. Plenty of customers out there not willing to put all their internal communications on the other side of their firewall, and now have to migrate. Slack doesn't have an on-prem option. Microsoft Teams doesn't have an on-prem option. What are enterprises supposed to use, RocketChat? Matrix? With no clear migration path? Really poor move on Atlassian's part. It would be one thi…

> What are enterprises supposed to use?

We run Mattermost on-prem. We've been quite happy with it. They have well-defined [1] migration plans for Slack, Hipchat, and others.

[1] https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Jira was great, ~15 years ago. It was a tool that actually helped development, especially with the GreenHopper plugin Now almost the entirety of its functionality is to help various middle managers track things that are important to them, while continuously making development slower. Manager 1 wants to track Metric A? Add a drop down. Manager 2 wants to track Metric B? Add a new form to fill out. And tie them all tog…

Hey, it could be worse. It could be VersionOne.

VersionOne has the advantage of being too clunky for middle managers to figure out.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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I mean this without being tongue in cheek, but Teams itself is anti-competitive. It's a horrible product which is basically only in use because it's bundled into Office 365. Absolutely nothing in Teams is not done better in other products, including Microsoft's own products such as Skype for Business or plain old Skype. Business chats in general are just completely incongruent with what users are expecting from end-u…

What about it is horrible? My team loves it.

Agreed. Teams works really well for us as well.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Huge problem for on-prem Hipchat customers. Plenty of customers out there not willing to put all their internal communications on the other side of their firewall, and now have to migrate. Slack doesn't have an on-prem option. Microsoft Teams doesn't have an on-prem option. What are enterprises supposed to use, RocketChat? Matrix? With no clear migration path? Really poor move on Atlassian's part. It would be one thi…

> Slack doesn't have an on-prem option. Microsoft Teams doesn't have an on-prem option. What are enterprises supposed to use, RocketChat? Matrix? With no clear migration path? Mattermost[1], with a clear migration path from Slack, at least. [1] https://mattermost.com/

We use Slack now, and are looking to migrate to Mattermost (since we run GitLab already).

We don't want to pay the price we'd need to pay to keep Slack, and plus we want to host our own.

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