This is a major win for Discord.
I'd argue that discord brand simply doesn't lend itself well to business. maybe they'll spin off a business oriented division with a different name,
"Harmony", perhaps?
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#492I'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…
> 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?).
Are you suggesting an enterprise is going to leave Office for Dropbox and Slack? Cause that's not happening.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
No they aren't. What is the SF equivilant to O365, Azure, Office, and Windows?
They don't have to be exactly matching Microsoft 1:1 to be a competitor. But Office/O365 -> Quip, Azure -> Heroku, Windows -> Lightning Platform (a bit of a stretch)
Quip isn't an Office competitor. Just because it offers similar functionality doesn't make it a competitor.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#494Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#495I'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…
however amazon is not really a tech-first company, their main business is retail (even if a lot of their revenue comes from AWS).
Retail is Amazons biggest revenue (raw cash) generator. AWS is amazons biggest profit (cash after expenses) generator.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#496I'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…
Surely S3 is a pebble compared to Dropbox?
People don't put big data warehouses on Dropbox, they do in S3.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#497Eh people will be salty about the Salesforce name but honestly their acquisition of Heroku hasn't caused me any pains regarding our experience with that platform. I'm as skeptical as anyone else, and I think there's more risk in a tighter "integration" making it a miserable experience. Might be a good time in the market for a new Slack competitor!
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Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#498Anyone 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…
Ah yes, people already waste fucking hours putting in the most ridiculous menial data into the CRM because management forces them to because Salesforce convinced them it would somehow help their business to know what color the customer's underwear was. Now instead they can get more efficient at wasting time by using both slack and crm at the same time!
lol.
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#499I'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…
> 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?). Are you suggesting an enterprise is going to leave Office for Dropbox and Slack? Cause that's not happening.
Small businesses aren't nearly as attached, and the Office experience sucks on mobile and web. There's definitely a market for someone who can get that right, and I don't think that someone is Microsoft. I say this as someone who is irrevocably attached to Excel (and to a lesser extent, Word and PowerPoint), I don't think Microsoft is currently willing to cut off the entire ecosystem of software based around Office on the desktop, but if you were to make a clean break, make it cheap and have it work great on web and mobile, a new player could have a shot. There's tons of people going to Google and their suite isn't great, what if it was?
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#500Anyone 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…
Last year I somehow ended up using the iOS imessage thing where I chat directly with a company and it was excellent. Never saw or heard of it again, but I would love to have a similar ability on slack. I have to chat with like ~10 vendors on a weekly basis for short-burst communication and end up having a bunch of weird shared slack-room things. Salesforce could clean that up and it'd be a great b2b messaging system.
Support for the Apple Card works this way too. It's honestly a joy.