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I had forgotten that they bought Heroku. As far as I know, Heroku is still as cool as when I used to frequently use it. Time will tell how it goes with the Slack acquisition.
Heroku kept getting more and more complicated. I remember when you could just push a Rails app to Heroku and everything would just work. That kept getting more and more challenging.
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.
It makes absolute sense - Slack wasn't going to survive as an independent. Their anti-trust efforts against Microsoft + Teams seemed to go nowhere. - Salesforce is one of the only companies that can go to-to-toe with Microsoft in the enterprise - 80%+ of the Fortune 500, 150k+ customers, 200k+ people at their conference each year - Salesforce already know your org chart so can roll out slack to anyone already on forc…
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> 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 o…
For me the fascinating headline here is the 86% gross margins. FY2020 gross revenue at Slack was $630.4m, GAAP gross profit $533.2m [1]. SaaS apps are comically, stupidly profitable at scale. That's educational. [1] https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-announces-fourth-quarter-a...
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But lots of Slack users are captive as well (e.g., when CIO licenses Slack for )
Slack is expensive, nobody randomly buys it for every employee
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You nailed it, Google product managers, specially in Cloud lack the Enterprise expertise. They need to get that a company with IT staff already went through updating NT to Windows 2000 and then 2008 and deploying Linux and Active Directory and Exchange 5.5, 2k..etc...many MS products which were de facto for any large Company, if you can't integrate with it you will never have a solid footstep into the Enterprise worl…
My large disappointment with Google's Cloud Platform offering was lack of commitment to parity features. I am sorry but the concept of "Beta release level" is a complete misfire/mismatch for what an enterprise needs. For example, you cannot, on one hand, advertise that you have a competitive feature (Google Functions competing with AWS Lambda), but then, on the other hand, turn around and label it beta and basically…
This is all obsolete anyway, since GCP has announced they're moving to two stages: Preview or GA. That's it.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-cloud-gets...
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What notifications? They're all off, we talk 90% async. And it's impossible to see a thread that you don't know about in their UI.
I mean, you can't really disable notifications that exist for a feature and then complain that you're not notified when somebody messages you using that feature... If it's truly async then just close slack until you're ready to talk, then open it back up and go through all of the red badges / white channels. If you absolutely need to keep all notifications off and still want to read any thread replies, the very top c…
How does that help with noticing threads that someone created while I wasn't looking?