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Wow... So if I understand correctly : 1) They decided to mess with a company having $500B in-cash 2) Which decided to attack their low barrier-to-entry market
by r2dnb 10y ago
Wow...
So if I understand correctly :
1) They decided to mess with a company having $500B in-cash
2) Which decided to attack their low barrier-to-entry market
3) And took the unusual revealing step of building its own instead of buying
4) And is playing in its comfort zone (productivity tools, Office, API, cloud-scale integration points : azure, azure marketplace etc...)
5) While having a pool of 90M trustful paying customers and the ability to provide them the same offering for free in less than 1 second.
The worst they could do was to help Microsoft define this offering as a direct competition. But this is just what they did with this arrogant and high-schoolish "Welcome" letter.
What really has me roll my eyes here is the way they think that they can be frontal with a corporation like Microsoft playing in its comfort zone and having the dollars we know they have.
This will cost them a lot. You can't easily backtrack from that and even if they somehow manage to do it, by the time they get there, Teams will have already seized a good chunk of their user base.
- blahi 10y ago0) Ask said company for a whooping $8B in cash.
- dingdongding 10y agoWho said Microsoft has $500B in cash? They have ~$100B in cash
- K0SM0S 10y agoOr maybe they knew all that, being the communication gurus that they claim to be, and it was a desperate move to be bought, essentially saying: "hey MS you got cash and loads of engineers but you can still fail at that because _reasons_; we have the know-how, consider buying us too". J/k, but who knows.
- asp_hornet 10y ago"Making my eyes roll" sums my feelings on this perfectly. Dear Slack, We built the cloud service, web framework, programming language and operating system our Team app runs on as well as the IDE it was built with, the source control its stored in and the office apps it integrates with, oh and 2 of the browsers we tested it on. The chat part really wasn't that hard. We'll probably be OK. - Microsoft
- ryanwaggoner 10y agoAnd the relational database
- asp_hornet 10y agogreat catch!
- grogenaut 10y agoModern teams at Microsoft usually use Git. Also Microsoft has acquired most of their version control systems. But yes I agree with you.