I wish I could upvote this twice. Many people only consider monetary cost as "cost" because their own time is basically free. But when you have to pay for any e

I wish I could upvote this twice. Many people only consider monetary cost as "cost" because their own time is basically free. But when you have to pay for any extra time spent on "fixing" IRC to become business capable, the proposition by Slack and their competitors starts to make a lot more sense. Even if you already have people capable of doing the work, do you want to task expensive employees on replicating something you could easily buy at a lower price or do you want to have them work on something that will actually increase revenue?