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If you're a decent sized organization, you can pay $12.50 per user per month to Slack for a messaging service, or you can pay $20 per user per month to Microsof
by noelsusman 7y ago
If you're a decent sized organization, you can pay $12.50 per user per month to Slack for a messaging service, or you can pay $20 per user per month to Microsoft for Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Exchange, Sharepoint, and a messaging service. If you just want messaging then you can pay $8 per user per month, and they'll throw in Exchange, Sharepoint, and a terabyte of cloud storage per user on top of it.
I don't think it's possible for Slack to be better enough to justify that kind of a price difference.
- luckylion 7y agoThat's probably true for cheap labor, but ~50% of developers I know will try to switch into other teams when they are forced to use Teams because it's that annoying. When you pay somebody thousands of dollars each month, paying an extra 12.50 to make him not look for a different job isn't really something you should need to think about a lot.
- underwater 7y agoOn the other hand, a knowledge workers like a mid level software engineer can easily cost a business $100 an hour in salary and costs. If Slack can save employees 8 minutes a month then it's a net win.