$27.7 Billion. Really impressive.
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#312Well, RIP Slack. Salesforce is a cancer that ruins everything they touch as far as I'm concerned.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#313I'm not a slack power user, but I feel that it's a bit like IRC but with a fancy (and slow) GUI wrapped around it. Certainly I am wrong, but how wrong?
Same opinion - I have mostly used Slack as a chat tool and it works very nicely for that
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#314I can't possibly see this going well for salesforce. Buying slack for 70x revenue is insane. Their entire market is going to be eaten by teams and google chat, if it hasn't already. Microsoft has such a gigantic advantage when it comes to enterprise productivity software because everyone is already using office. And those that aren't are on g-suite. Slack's recent guidance was horrible too.
Slack's main differentiator up until now was that it wasn't tied up in a tech giant. That meant it had great compatibility with everything, and that it was, as a product, the primary focus of its company (and not just an accessory). I think it could have survived on that alone, but this acquisition throws that entire story in the garbage. Now it'll just be "Teams but worse".
Salesforce is tied into everything too. I bet this works out great. Wish I didn't sell most of my shares at $25...
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#315Can't wait to see which Slack alternative wins after everyone jumps ship.
Teams seems to be doing surprisingly well. Considering how many businesses have it "included" with their Office subscriptions, it just has to be good enough to avoid someone wanting to pay extra for an outside service. If Lync was half as good as Teams is now, companies like Slack never would've gotten off the ground.
Holy hell, Lync is one relic I haven't heard of in a long long time.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord could be interesting as Amazon has already shown interest in the gaming / streaming / online community space with their Twitch acquisition.
Google needs to buy Discord, do the gluey bits to integrate it into GSuite, shut down all its other chat offerings, and then let them do their thing.
Given some of their moves with Google Workspace tying together Gmail / Meet / Chat, I doubt they could get away with this without significant antitrust issues.
They still haven’t fully closed on their Fitbit acquisition, so I’d expect they’d have a tough hill to climb for a Discord or a Slack.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google chat, lol. Which one? Google Wave? Google Buzz? Google Talk? Google Hangouts? Google Allo? Google Duo? Google Meet? Google chat that came with Google Apps? Or G Suite? Or Google Workspace?
Damn! What kind of research did you have to do to write all those names or did you remember them all? :) They're so many now, I can only remember a few
Haha, it reminds me a bit of Microsoft Account, MSA, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Passport, .NET Passport, and Microsoft Passport Network.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#318So question: which of all the alternatives to Slack has text as a first class citizen?
We don't use video or audio chat at all; just text chat, pinning important info to channels, swapping small files, searching chat history and a few plugins like reminders and github. May be important to mention that we have a lot of separate projects going on and we separate each in its own channel.
We absolutely want mobile and desktop clients, not a "web UI" that happens to sort of work on all platforms.
Could the hive mind give me some names of alternatives to consider?
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#319Kinda 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.
I'm pretty sure that nobody as Slack is going to be unexcited about a 50% stock bump.
I've been on the receiving end of boring acquisitions, and I can assure you that the financial upside can excite people quite effectively.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#320Whatever happened to matrix.org/vector/riot.im/element.io? (side note: most confusing branding ever :-/). Element seemed to be picking up some momentum a few months back. There was recent news that they acquired gitter too [1]. These days I only hear about slack exodus and discord this and discord that, though. If I get it right, from all the group messengers that appeared around 6 years ago, the only one with an ope…
Enterprises don't want federation. They want an easily searchable information repository much more than they want strong E2EE. They also don't see open source as an advantage. Matrix was focused on things that deter enterprise customers while Slack built a machine for locking them in.
Do you think that's what's led to Slack's success though, that enterprises don't want federation?
I don't really think so. If Slack had exactly the same UX as it has but federated, I don't think that would have deterred very many customers. Maybe a few that have come on only after Slack already got so big.