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Slack is Screwed
- amptorn 10y agoHaving competitors doesn't mean you're screwed.
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoExcessive statements on headlines help click through ratios though
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoOffice365 and G Suite are costly for many SMEs. There's plenty of space there for Slack.
- Eridrus 10y agoThe pricing for all of Gsuite($5) or O365($10) seems about on par with just paying for Slack($8), unless you're using the free tier, and those businesses don't really matter to anyone by definition.
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoI would argue that the free tier matters to any company that offers one, otherwise they would not offer it.
- tinus_hn 10y agoMany organizations are going to have Office 365 subscriptions already. If it's a typical Microsoft product it won't be much of a threat though.
- mjolk 10y agoGreat clickbait title, venturebeat. > (Google and Microsoft are entering the group chat space..) In other words, Slack doesn’t offer anything that Google and Microsoft can’t replicate. Of course Google and Microsoft can replicate the functionality of Slack -- they have smart, talented staff and chatrooms are a solved problem. However, where Slack excels is in cutting across organizational units, skill-sets, and getting people to use it. It's persistent-history IRC without a technical barrier and great marketing/user acquisition/word-of-mouth. Unless you're a Microsoft tech-org (meaning C#/.net is the norm, not exception), there's a high likelihood that the only Microsoft software that engineering and design departments have installed is Skype; if I was at Slack, wouldn't sweat the scenario of sales, marketing, and engineering suddenly adopting Microsoft (in fact, "Microsoft Teams" was ostensibly announced in November and no one in my circles has mentioned it). Google is a trickier problem for Slack. Everyone uses Gmail and Google is the landing page of the HTTP-internet. However, and maybe this is contentious, Google's need to integrate their myriad services turns users away. Not to beat a dead horse, but Google Plus could not have asked for better conditions for organic growth and it still somehow turned into a ghost town. > Almost every business either has G Suite or Office 365... As a company, why the hell would you shell out for one of them and Slack? But, to my experience and opinion, "already paid for" and "close enough" may peel away some users from Slack and towards Google -- this is why orgs end up using HipChat.
- Delmania 10y agoOne of the organizations that I am currently employed with is a remote .NET business. We use Slack for our communications. Office365 is separate from Visual Studio Team Services. You'll find very few purist organisations, as most use whatever is convenient.
- aphextron 10y agoSlack is way too expensive. $9/month/user quickly becomes an insane amount of money for large organizations to spend on something that is essentially an IRC client.
- chris_7 10y agoCan't wait for it to die off. The typical "all day meeting with the everyone in your company and no agenda" usage is terrible and the software does very little to discourage it holistically.
- AzzieElbab 10y agoOh God, how many stupid, power hungry, buggy chat apps will I have to install on my phone. Make it stop
- api 10y agoChat / audio / video and related comms software seems to be a lemon market.
- mathattack 10y agoI don't think too many companies are scared of Microsoft anymore. This isn't the 90s.