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Re:Is Slack Really Worth $2.8B? A Conversation with Stewart ... by hurin on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:18AM (#9393105)
There are gui clients that support both protocols (i.e. I think Pidgin does) - why not just write a plugin that allows to cross-communicate between the two?
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Re:Is Slack Really Worth $2.8B? A Conversation with Stewart ... by nemothekid on Friday April 17, 2015 @09:44AM (#9394215)
As time goes on I get more and more disillusioned with solutions that begin with "why not just write".

Nothing excites me more than having to think about supporting yet another codebase deployed to non-technical people who will undoubtedly cause more bugs than thought possible and open more JIRA tickets about it with increasingly vague title names.

At some point Slack or [integration of choice] is cheaper than having an internal engineering team to write half-baked communication solutions.

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