Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation

Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by Spivak on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:16PM (#20228943)

Why do you make it sound like some shady back-door deal? Our grey-beard entirely Linux using ops staff would drop Slack for MS teams at the drop of a hat to get that money back in the budget. You can only waste so much money when the entire office demands Office.

Dropbox is also one the chopping block to be replaced by OneDrive. Until someone can break hard dependency people have on Office products MS suite will always come out cheaper than Office + $other_thing.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by ndarwincorn on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:52AM (#20229985)

Can confirm. Desktop Linux-using ops staff here, we're moving from dropbox to onedrive in the next ~month, and I'd switch from Slack to Teams if it didn't suffer from the same problem all MS IM products (UWP/Chromium Skype- & Lync-based alike) seem to face: intermittent failures to push notifications.

We route alerts through IM primarily, and are remote-first. I get that some folks here complain about their inability to ignore chat notifications, but there's a decent chunk of us that need to find our uninterrupted time where we can, not when we want.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by vmurthy on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:09AM (#20230356)

> Dropbox is also one the chopping block to be replaced by OneDrive.

A few weeks ago the startup I work for started using NextCloud as a stop-gap till we get O365 and OneDrive. It is ridiculously simple for us at-least to just copy over our entire Dropbox folder to the NextCloud one.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by Spivak on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:14AM (#20232543)

I hear that. I wish I could deploy Nextcloud at my company. We have plenty of resources and storage. Not paying per user per month would be so so so nice.

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