Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives

Re:Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives by woof on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:56PM (#10495594)

$6.67/month is less than $0.33/day (~20 workdays/month)!

That's an trivial amount to pay for effective communications in my book.

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Re:Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives by marceloschmidt on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:22PM (#10496474)

$0.00/forever is also trivial, with so many OSS alternatives out there.

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Re:Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives by Sanddancer on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:43PM (#10496559)

How much time do you have to spend setting it up, maintaining it, documenting your set up, etc? While OSS has no upfront costs, it does cost in terms of dev and admin time.

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Re:Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives by bachmeier on Monday November 02, 2015 @06:09PM (#10496053)

You pay that for every Slack user, no matter how many or few messages you exchange with them. I don't think someone else is going to pay $6.67 to replace ten email messages.

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Re:Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives by woof on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @02:20AM (#10505072)

"I frequently interact with at least 25 people just to do my job"

Frequently, not ten messages in total.

Email works fine for non important sporadic communication.

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