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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by adamrt on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:36PM (#17620787)
It looks more like a product acquisition than collusion.

> Slack will pay an undisclosed amount over the next three years to acquire Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride products

Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by sandyarmstrong on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:41PM (#17620863)
...which are being immediately shut down.
Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by dsnuh on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:56PM (#17621643)
Depending on how you define "immediately". This is from the Atlassian FAQ:

  The end-of-life dates for each products are below:

  Stride: February 15th, 2019
  Hipchat Cloud: February 15th, 2019
  Hipchat Data Center (v3.0): June 22nd, 2019
  Hipchat Data Center (v3.1): September 26th, 2019
  Hipchat Server (v2.1): December 8th, 2018
  Hipchat Server(v2.2): May 30th, 2019 
  Hipchat Server (v2.4): June 30th, 2020
Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by booyaslacka299 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:43PM (#17620897)
Their official post says they are working on a transition path:

https://slackhq.com/atlassian-and-slack-partnership

Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by sandyarmstrong on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:13PM (#17621199)
Yes, I should have been more clear.

They are immediately deprecated. It doesn't appear that Slack has any real interest in Hipchat/Stride tech (I know I don't).

Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by slivym on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:42PM (#17620877)
Okay, so given that Atlassian has a clear and direct reason to develop a competitive chat application, presumably they'll embark on producing a new solution and marketing it to their customers as a competitor to slack? I'm not sure I buy it.