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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by nine_k on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:39PM (#20229645)
One little detail: the MS offering should work adequately.

If Lync (Skype for Business) is any indication, building well-working enterprise messaging is hard. Unless cost-cutting is your central concern, you want your internal communication to use the best, least-friction tools. Here Slack has quite an advantage.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by seanmcdirmid on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:02AM (#20230038)
What advantages does Slack have over Zoom? Microsoft Teams seems to compete more with the latter than the former.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by nine_k on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:19PM (#20234363)
Zoom and Slack are very different products.

99% of value of Slack for our team is in the text-related features.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by seanmcdirmid on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:28PM (#20234472)
Yes, I know, but it seems most of the value Microsoft Teams provide is in its video conferencing capabilities. Why is Slack said to be competing with one and not the other?
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