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The article talks about Hipchat as a competitor but HipChat was shut down by Atlassian and HipChat users were strongly encouraged to adopt Slack: https://www.at
by mikece 7y ago
The article talks about Hipchat as a competitor but HipChat was shut down by Atlassian and HipChat users were strongly encouraged to adopt Slack: https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack
- jjeaff 7y agoJust for clarity, Hipchat users were strongly encouraged to move to Slack because slack purchased Hipchat from Atlassian.
- jnwatson 7y agoOnly because Atlassian abandoned HipChat after trying to replace it.
- alias_neo 7y ago> HipChat was shut down by Atlassian Not entirely accurate. It's was bought by Slack, and then shut down.
- orliesaurus 7y agoDidn't they just buy the userbase? I don't think they bought the technology - they also made a lot of devs redundant after the purchase?
- saghul 7y agoThey bought the IP, not the product.
- alias_neo 7y agoI'm not sure the exact details of the purchase, I just know that a deadline was placed on our HipChat installation at work (it would not be renewed, and only supported until date X). It seems their ultimate goal was to shut down a competitor, so, with the result being the same, I suppose the specifics matter very little.
- benatkin 7y agoAnother thing that happened is GitHub acquired both Gitter and Spectrum. Gitter deprecated its mobile app. Spectrum's founder has been working on other stuff at GitHub. Microsoft has Teams so that might have something to do with it.
- SlavikCA 7y agoGitter was acquired by Gitlab, not Github.