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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by colinmhayes on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:59PM (#25273417)
Some decent points. 80% is good to see. The problem is I don't see anyway companies drop Microsoft. Everyone already has teams or chat for free, are they going to pay for slack now? Assuming slack moves to the same model, buy the salesforce suite and get slack, how much added value is slack really providing? Will companies be willing to pay more now that slack is included even though they already have chat apps? I'm not super knowledgeable on salesforce, but afaik only sales people have the subscription, so will companies have different chat apps for sales and everyone else? Seems like it would be easier to just put the sales people on teams with everyone else. Is slack a big enough perk that it would stop companies that are considering dropping salesforce? Is that worth 28 billion? That's really the only use I see. I agree this is a great move for slack, questioning how salesforce is able to leverage slack here when everyone else gives their chats away for free.
Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by zxienin on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:42AM (#25273823)
Teams is the new Skype

> everyone has Teams for free

Prevalent sentiment at my workplace: Teams integrates well for outlook meetings, but it‘s a CPU hog, has crappy chat UI.

It paralyzes work to the extent, that I only prefer to use Slack. Or zoom for bigger video calls.

Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by amir734jj on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:22AM (#25274314)
Exactly. I work at a large financial company and we have: Teams, Slack, Skype and Zoom.

- Zoom for large team meeting

- Slack for collaboration between our teams

- Skype for upper management meetings who are still only know Skype

- Teams is free with office subscription and our company has been pushing everyone to use it instead of using slack but everyone hates Teams. Terrible UI and slow

Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by random_kris on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:05AM (#25275018)
how is UI terrible? I've been amazed by Teams and what it offers to me out of the box..

I've been using slack/mattermost/discord And functionality wise only discord can be onpar with teams.