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by chopete 3834 days ago
It is yammer all over again http://i.imgur.com/DKODqy3.png

I can't help but post this based on my experience pitching to vendors to join an app store.

Slack CEO: Yammer made $1.2B. We need to make $12B. For that I need to make a hit song with 10,000 background dancers with me on the stage.

Board: How much can you pay each dancer?.

CEO: $10/hr

Board: Ok. Announce an App Store.

You are already a hero and there are hundreds of them to jump on stage to dance with you in that 5 minute song.

CEO: Now you are talking!
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Freak_NL 3834 days ago
We were looking at a company communication channel to replace Yammer and Google Chat a while back, and briefly played with Slack. In the end trading in one cloud service for another seemed unwise.

Because we already used self-hosted GitLab when they announced the inclusion of MatterMost (FOSS self-hosted alternative to Slack) we simply activated that and have been quite satisfied with it.

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