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Re:Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011) by santoshalper on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:36PM (#23798276)
It is 100% going to be Microsoft. Google is laughably bad at enterprise software and Microsoft really has no meaningful competition at this point. Teams is now crushing Slack in market share for the exact reason he mentioned - enterprise IT managers do not like the Unix approach of small targeted tools. They like product suites. Office 365 is as every bit as dominant today as Windows was 20 years ago.
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Re:Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011) by lliamander on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:22PM (#23825722)
I see that Teams has full Linux support. I am glad.
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Re:Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011) by 55555 on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:23PM (#23798558)
Why do they like product suites? This is alien to me.
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Re:Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011) by jackcosgrove on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:55PM (#23798765)
Probably because the product suite components integrate much more easily than a bunch of separate tools from different vendors. And there are fewer particulars to know if you stay in one ecosystem. Maybe there is even a unified administration console.
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