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Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by strictnein »

> "and are providing a migration path to Slack for all our customers."

Well, not all of your customers. Unless Slack is introducing a self-hosted version?

They've already nuked the page on the self-hosted hipchat offering, which now redirects to https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack

Which is a complete bummer. Slack isn't an option for us.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by elithrar »

horsecaptin wrote: post #11
fl0wenol wrote: post #6

And whoosh there goes another option for non-cloud-based enterprise chat.

Weren't both Slack's and Atlassian's offerings cloud-based?

HipChat had an on-prem (self-hosted) release, but it's been near-abandoned for quite some time.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by gms »

thedangler wrote: post #7

We were using hipchat, worked fine with our custom integrations and workflow. Stopped working when they switched to stride ( had to do with version of jira we are on) Now that my integrations are all most working again I have to probably look at using mattermost. We don't want to use slack.

Why not?

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by joeblau »

I've never really gotten into any of Atlasssian's products. It seems like they make tools for managers with bolt on functionality for engineers (which may be why I never caught onto their products). I hope this is good news for Slack, but as a software engineer today, Atlasssian's products are not the first ones I would recommend in any category.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by Kiro »

kidfiji wrote: post #18
Kiro wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with the electron app?

I personally don't have a problem with it, but a lot of people have a problem with it taking up a bit of system resources, primarily ram.

Thanks! The only Electron app I use is Visual Studio Code and it works great so was curious.

(Crazy btw that I get downvoted to oblivion within seconds for asking an honest question.)

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by zokier »

Stride was launched last year. I guess it didn't get much traction then if they gave up on it in less than a year. For consumer it is of course bit sad to see the 800lb gorilla just keep growing and eating up competition, but I can see how this makes sense to at least Atlassian; they are getting better Slack integrations, and possibly other partnership benefits for what seems like essentially free. Not sure how much this move will benefit Slack (the company, not the product), but maybe they'll absorb few more customers this way. Although I imagine many Hipchat/Stride admins will be reevaluating their choices instead of just jumping blindly to Slack.

Re: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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Post by compuguy »

horsecaptin wrote: post #11
fl0wenol wrote: post #6

And whoosh there goes another option for non-cloud-based enterprise chat.

Weren't both Slack's and Atlassian's offerings cloud-based?

They offered a version of Hipchat that could be hosted on perm (Hipchat Server/Data Center). Slack has never had a on perm product.
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