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by jjrh 3212 days ago
> Not having to manage a server

Seems odd you would want to have you're internal company discussions hosted on a server outside your control. It's especially relevant to companies outside the USA who might not want to have their data under US law.

I wouldn't recommend IRC for office communication. XMPP is probably the better tool.
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GordonS 3203 days ago
> Seems odd you would want to have you're internal company discussions hosted on a server outside your control

Our legal department wouldn't let us use Slack, for exactly this reason

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lghh 3209 days ago
Most companies operate on systems outside of their control. Windows, MacOS, mobile platforms, etc. Why limit it to discussions if that's a concern? If my company makes iOS applications, having to use MacOS and having to live with the possibility that everything that I type is being sent back to some server somewhere that way is just as bad, right?
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