Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation

Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by Spivak on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:12PM (#20228927)

I'm not sure they'll be able to compete against a worse but integrated solution like MS teams long term. No doubt it's worse but the bundle is cheaper with when you're already paying for Windows and Office. Same story with G Suite.

MS and Google don't actually have to be better with their chat product, they just have to be usable and cheaper.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by ColinWielga on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:15PM (#20229241)

My company just switched from Slack to Teams.

I think it is hard for cost conscious organizations with o365 to justify slack.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by CameronBanga on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:37PM (#20229638)

I use Teams in a very large org. Sometimes, the lack of integration and capability is a benefit. People don’t message me unless they actually need something.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by wastedhours on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:31AM (#20231461)

Agree - there was a lot of talk about Slack in our org, until everyone realised we had Teams already as part of O365 and it delivers on most of the use cases you set up from Day One.

It's actually pretty good for managing discreet work streams, and even for organising personal work (kind of against the "Team" ethos, but having a channel for myself keeps my work visible and tabs keep important things to hand easily).

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by tjr225 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:19AM (#20230118)

I have _never_ used teams. I have seen it creep up in enterprise focused orgs but I have still never used it.

As a remote worker Slack is my office, essentially, and I think it's done an amazing job at being an office for remote first companies. I can't speak for Teams.

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