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It's pretty obvious that Salesforce is going after the same model as Microsoft - bundling enterprise software to create a stronger moat against competitors offering unbundled, standalone versions, and to strengthen the value prop when selling to customers. Will be fascinating to see this rivalry pick up steam as time goes on.
I hope this acquisition does not pass regulatory oversight. This is how it starts. Very soon, we will have another competition-killing, anti-competitive behemoth on our hands like we did with FANGM and then we will suddenly ask ourselves how it all happened. THIS. Right here. Is how it happens.
The general trend seems to be winner takes all single suppliers in each market segment. They have no direct competition so eventually become a tax on us all.
I don't understand this sentiment at all. Slack is a nicely-done, enterprise-y chat app with a lot of users, most of who liked the idea of not paying for anything. There are many competitors, including several open source options.
"Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion" Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/technology/salesforce-sla...
No, really.
That's an unreal price. Slack benefits little from network effects. Deployment has no fundamental secret sauce.
This is a crazy number. This does not make sense.
Kinda bummed by this news. I know a bunch of people over at Slack and I'm sure none of them are excited about being acquired. I still don't understand how salesforce has gotten so big where they can acquire $25B healthy companies which really don't fit into their eco-system.
Damn. I can't see how this ends well for Slack users in the long term. > Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world. Oh. Oh no.
> The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world. I'm just complaining, but... Why do people write things like this? I see it in my own employer and our marketing material, too. It's confusing bullshit that is devoid of any meaning.
Damn. I can't see how this ends well for Slack users in the long term. > Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world. Oh. Oh no.
Heroku's consistent user experience post-Salesforce-aquisition gives me a little hope. It would be nice to hear Salesforce offer some assurances of product independence, though.
I can still see a world where Slack is a tool that continues to operate and serve its customers, similar to Heroku post-acquisition, but Salesforce augments their services with Slack tie-ins (and vice-versa).
Short: there's a middle ground I think they can strike.
It has a great approach to threads, where you can make them mandatory or optional on a per-channel basis (even when optional they have names and are more useful than Slack threads).
They also support adding external parties to channels/threads by email or SMS and even more interestingly, their model is such that you can direct message people in other Quill organizations if you know their details.
[0]: https://quill.chat
Microsoft must be cursing their decision right now..
I hope this acquisition does not pass regulatory oversight. This is how it starts. Very soon, we will have another competition-killing, anti-competitive behemoth on our hands like we did with FANGM and then we will suddenly ask ourselves how it all happened. THIS. Right here. Is how it happens.
I'm somewhat surprised that Amazon didn't end up acquiring Slack, considering that the major thing they are missing compared to Microsoft is productivity tools. If they had purchased Dropbox and Slack they could've gotten a foothold rather quickly and slowed down one of Microsoft's major selling points (you already use Office, why not Azure?). Discord could be another interesting company in the chat space, as I'm sur…
>Yes, I know Chime exists. But I don't think I've ever heard of anyone using it, and Slack is still rather popular. I think even Amazon realized how awful Chime is, given that they, as a company, switched to Slack just a few months ago.
That may just be a peculiarity of my department, but saying "Amazon as a company switched to slack" is definitely overstating what happened.