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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by shreyshrey »

magicalhippo wrote: post #284
CharlesW wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unpopular HN opinion: Teams doesn't suck. It's not as pretty/lovable as Slack, but it has an additional level of organization (each team gets their own set of channels), you can add tabs of related apps/sites to each channel, etc. As far as I could tell having used both simultaneously for a few years, Teams is a complete superset of Slack.

We use Teams at work, and for that it works quite well. Calls and desktop sharing work well, the channels do what they do, integration with OneDrive and the wiki thing is nice etc. But then I got a member of a different Team, for one of our customers, as part of some integration work. And boy is that a CF. Unlike Discord you either have this team or that team active. Notifications from the other are horribly unreliab…

Shameless plug. AirSend (https://www.airsend.io) offers the bare essentials one need to collaborate with both internal team members & external clients in one elegant package. Collaborating across organization boundaries is really hard with both ms teams and slack. Thats the problem we are trying to solve with airsend.

AirSend gives you a few simple (chat, voice/video, files, tasks and wiki) but powerful tools and then get out of the way.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by thekyle »

HatchedLake721 wrote: post #118
colinmhayes wrote: post #68

I 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.

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?

As far I can tell Google currently has two products called "Google Chat". One of them is available at chat.google.com for G-Suite customers and competes with Slack. The other is available in Android Messages and is the user-facing name for RCS.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by syshum »

magicalhippo wrote: post #284
CharlesW wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unpopular HN opinion: Teams doesn't suck. It's not as pretty/lovable as Slack, but it has an additional level of organization (each team gets their own set of channels), you can add tabs of related apps/sites to each channel, etc. As far as I could tell having used both simultaneously for a few years, Teams is a complete superset of Slack.

We use Teams at work, and for that it works quite well. Calls and desktop sharing work well, the channels do what they do, integration with OneDrive and the wiki thing is nice etc. But then I got a member of a different Team, for one of our customers, as part of some integration work. And boy is that a CF. Unlike Discord you either have this team or that team active. Notifications from the other are horribly unreliab…

>>and there's no way to chat with someone in one team while you're in a call with someone from the other team besides running a separate client.

This was largely fixed, you may have to enable the "new meeting experience" though, which starts your meeting / call in a separate window from the main client

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by hu3 »

hobofan wrote: post #123
kescher wrote: post #82

Salesforce, more like Buyforce. They are acquiring so many companies, it's not even funny.

That's just what CRM companies do, isn't it? SAP is also just a huge pile of acquisitions that's held together by some duct tape.

I don't envy their authentication team. Must be a nightmare to consolidate old and new users under the same duct taped roof while dealing with acquired systems intricacies.

Some hardcore engineering there for sure.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by J5892 »

madrox wrote: post #220

"Congratulations to Slack on its exit" I say as I forgot they are post-IPO. I always thought it strange how big Slack got to begin with. History will probably remember its ultimate accomplishment was getting lots of companies to switch from direct-message communication to chat rooms. However, that was probably inevitable as an internet savvy generation took over more companies, and Slack was simply well-timed. It's n…

If they fuck up Slack, everyone will move to MS Teams.

That is, unless some start-up dreams up some kind of revolutionary paradigm shift in how people communicate online.

Maybe something in the AR space ~10 years from now.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by jasonv »

colinmhayes wrote: post #407
jasonv wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see Meet, but not Chat, and none of my Chats show up in the Gmail app (iOS), and there's a separate Chat app (which doesn't do the account switching I mentioned). If Chat is built in, I don't see it yet.

My app has mail, chat, rooms, and meet tabs at the bottom.

I have Mail and Meet.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by preommr »

lostcolony wrote: post #274
JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a compelling pitch, but when it comes to actually using low code/no code solutions... well, it's a conversation that we re-visit every few years for a reason. Everyone needs last-mile customization that requires coding and therefore some technical ability.

Once a company realizes that it's not magical unicorns, they're too deeply embedded. Is it better to spend X every year to just make the Salesforce solution work (thereby not having to admit to a mistake, and mitigating personal risk), or spend 3X in one year to write something in house (that requires maybe 1/10th X to maintain/extend from then on, but which is riskier, and unlikely to show up on future evals such th…

Nobody wants to be the manager responsible for a large expense that might pay off in years when when the manager is in a different position and therefore the advantages will be reaped by someone else.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by J5892 »

sjg007 wrote: post #372

Anyone read the press release? Salesforce wants to use Slack as an input device driver. Imagine slacking with your customers, colleagues etc... need to create a DB entry? Slack command. Need to schedule some follow up, slack command. Need to track a bunch of tasks? Slack-Force integrations. I see an AI bot here to help get that data into Salesforce. To quote: "Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of e…

I'm just terrified that they'll integrate Slack's clean web interface with the massive net of clutter that is Salesforce's UI.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by vfclists »

dheera wrote: post #327
ivraatiems wrote: post #41

Well, Slack, it was nice knowing you. I wonder who Discord will get bought up by when it replaces Slack after a year or two of Salesforce mismanagement? It's so sad that this is the cycle for software now. Start small, get big fast, get sold, get ruined. I realize I am presupposing Salesforce will ruin Slack - but it's hard to see how they won't , unless they take the approach Microsoft took with Github and keep it a…

> Start small, get big fast, get sold, get ruined Why does every business have to be a $100G business? Can we support a model in which we have a lot of $100M businesses that are doing great things and delivering quality instead of quantity? Investors seem to not like that idea, but customers would love that idea. It's unfortunate that our markets are not optimized for customers.

Because major takeovers are ways of fleecing investors, enriching owners, top executives and merger brokers.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by corytheboyd »

easton wrote: post #14

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…

Joke’s on Microsoft, now Amazon can just buy Salesforce instead!

/s

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