[BradRuderman]

Oh, I'm interested in the business decision behind that. For example why didn't they just buy (not acquire) the slack product. What were the reasons to host it in-house and manage it themselves.

[obrajesse]

They got the team behind it, who now work on other parts of Dropobox

[BradRuderman]

Right by why maintain the chat app? Why not just buy slack.

[egypturnash]

Buying Slack requires Slack to be interested in selling themselves.

[npizzolato]

You're misinterpreting him. "Buy" here is purchasing the product, as a typical customer.

[cjbprime]

You're assuming:

* that Slack was for sale too

* that Dropbox wanted the app, rather than the people who made the app

[jfb]

Slack is out for a lot of groups that don't particularly want internal, private communications routed through a third-party.

[uptown]

GOTO 10

[fletchowns]

I don't understand why you are being downvoted for legitimate questions.

[npizzolato]

Same. It's kind of sad. Apparently questioning the business reason behind decisions isn't appreciated. I personally find them interesting.

[BradRuderman]

I mean the slack product!

[rrdharan]

BradRuderman you are conflating two different things that are not necessarily related:

(1) How Dropbox chooses to satisfy internal requirements/demand for a group chat solution

(2) Why/whether Dropbox should have acquired/acqhired the Zulip team

[BradRuderman]

Yea my point of the comment was (1). I didn't even know it was an acquisition. I am shutting up to prevent loosing any more minimal reputation.