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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by 0xEFF on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:45AM (#20233400)
Why would they?
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by ninkendo on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:47AM (#20233425)
A free alternative?
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by jasongill on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:03AM (#20233600)
You guys really think that enterprise-tier Fortune 500's are going to switch from Slack to a free alternative? Why would they? The money they spend on Slack isn't even a rounding error in their budgets, there's no way that they would want to cut that out and instead have their internal staff try to support some free service instead
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by bytematic on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:13AM (#20233705)
Discord has essentially the same app but better voice/call support and other various features. But they seem focused on the gamer market.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by sureaboutthis on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:10PM (#20234935)
When they realize they are tired of the distraction and didn't really need it in the first place.
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