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What industry?

• jawilson2 8y ago
  We switched to mattermost from slack. We're in trading.
  • PakG1 8y ago
    Even for companies that aren't in trading, I can't think of many reasons why anyone would want to switch back to Slack on an organizational basis. Public communities, sure. But organizationally? No contest IMHO.
    • paxys 8y ago
      Most companies don't have the infrastructure and staff needed to host an application like this and take care of security, ongoing maintenance, updates etc. Much easier to pay a few bucks per user and trust someone else to handle it.
      • Jedd 8y ago
        That 'few bucks per user' is a bit misleading. Slack's cheapest business plan is usd $7 / month / seat. Hosted mattermost is usd $3 / month / seat.
• silvester23 8y ago
  Electric utility and energy trading.
  • hobofan 8y ago
    Am I assuming correctly that the idea behind this is that you self-host everything, to be isolated from energy failures that could have cascading effects? Or is it more due to security reasons to be harder of a target?
    • silvester23 8y ago
      As far as I'm aware (I'm not exactly central to our information security processes), it is more of the latter. Due to the amount of electric power we control, we, as a company, have been deemed critical infrastructure by the state and as such, we have to comply with rather rigorous information security standards. We do, however, also have an uninterruptible power supply for the most critical hardware.