Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by tabbott on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:25PM (#17622532)

HipChat is known for having a problematic low-level protocol (based on a fork of XMPP), it's featureset is much more limited than Slack's, and it's implemented in a different programming language.

It'd be a lot less work to fork Slack and make it work on-premise than do something with HipChat. And that's saying a lot: forking Slack to make it run well on-premise would likely be an enormous project.

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by colordrops on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:02PM (#17623145)

Or they could just leave it as is or rebrand it as Slack enterprise until they build a new version based on Slack.

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by mulcahey on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:12PM (#17623181)

the UI/UX is so different I'd be very surprised if they managed that

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by edwinnathaniel on Friday July 27, 2018 @12:30AM (#17623447)

See SKYPE for Business. replace('Lync', 'Skype') probably...

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by nyconyco on Friday July 27, 2018 @05:34AM (#17624696)

Oh Mircosfot's strategy is the weirdest: OCS, Lync, Skype, Skype for Business, Teams, Yammer... People are just lost.

Nayego is trying to hard build a HipChat-like client+server that is open source and based on XMPP. https://nayego.net/ you can subscribe if you want to see a preview.

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