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by eterm 4150 days ago
Disappointed to see it's a saas app with no ability to self-host. For project management I think information is too confidential to be using a third party cloud provider.

I'll keep it bookmarked though, perhaps my attitude in this regard is out of date.

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It's not. We've just received a new project which forced us to redo our whole company IT and go back to Selfhosted Solutions in a ISO 27001 Datacenter. (luckily the company that datacenter belongs to is in our building and provides our internet, so we have direct network access to the servers)

Atlassian is so successful in a big part due to their self-hosting option.

I agree, we self host Jira and Confluence for all our sensitive stuff. We'd love to self host our HipChat but the price is just a bit rich right now, so we make sure the teams don't post sensitive stuff there.
Protonet got 3 Mio EUR last year in a crowd funding campaign in Germany for their NAS + collaboration software, with a clear marketing focus on privacy ... so no, it's still a market ;)
Yeah, we got a Protonet Maya some time ago and it's been pretty much a paperweight + expensive wireless router so far. The software is ambitious but ultimately useless.

Funny enough, our biggest boost in communication came from starting using Slack. That thing is amazing, and getting creative with integrations is awesome. It's a somewhat important part of our workflow now.