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by nmblackburn 3520 days ago
Bad move on Slack, accept your competition and work to stay ahead of the game that you no longer have a monopoly on.
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They never were.

We only use a mix of Microsoft Lync and Lotus Sametime.

> Lotus Sametime

You're hanging onto that still? We used to build a number of products for Sametime, but IBM appears to have written it off and is hemorrhaging customers jumping ship, to Lync/Skype mostly, or Jabber, to a lesser extent.

That is what happens when IT dictates the rules.
When did they ever have a monopoly?