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Michael Tiemann used to say that he wasn't interested in trying to pitch to a company unless he thought his product (Red Hat Linux) was four times better than w
by sjellis 9y ago
Michael Tiemann used to say that he wasn't interested in trying to pitch to a company unless he thought his product (Red Hat Linux) was four times better than what they currently had: the costs and risks of a switch can easily negate the value of changing to a product that is only somewhat better than the incumbent. Unless Stride does something massively better than Slack, I don't see how Stride can compete.
- pletnes 9y agoIt’ll be bundled with other atlassian products. Less hassle to integrate with those, one less service to log into, one less monthly payment, etc. Slack is possibly better for someone who doesn’t use atlassian products. Also, many people use skype for business, and so slack faces the exact same problem.
- jpalomaki 9y agoSlack's challenge is that it's just Slack. It's an extra monthly cost, extra thing to the manage. Atlassian can sell you the integrated package. One price, one invoice, tight integration between products. I don't have any data on this, but I think one reason for Slack's success was that people could just start using it without going thorough the IT. I'd assume there's still a huge number of companies who haven't made an official choice on this space. Those might be tempted to go with offerings from Atlassian or Microsoft. Slack could be interesting acquisition for Dropbox (haven't thought out if it could work financially).