Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack

I think both Slack and Discord are good examples of products that entered already well established niches and still succeeded.<p>Slack launched in August 2013 as a plain text chat service without voice and video calls. Skype and HipChat already existed for a decade before Slack entered the market.<p>In just seven years Slack went from being an internal team chat app to making a $28 billion exit.

Perhaps Stewart, Cal, and co will start work on a game next.

It&#x27;s pretty frustrating how many OSS projects use Slack but there are no options available to pay for a discounted pro plan. We&#x27;d love to pay a flat-ish fee for the community but it creates a disincentive to grow. Their active user fair pricing helps a bit, but it&#x27;s not great.

I remember the pitch from Render.com, they are doing it because Heroku stopped innovating since Salesforce acquired them.<p>Although most of the time Salesforce just leave those acquisition alone and let them do their work. Which is sort of strange if there are no benefits and synergy, it is more like a long term asset investment.<p>I sometimes wonder if these sort of acquisition has something to do with low interest rate, ease of capital, and tax reduction.

Who needs Slack when you can use, as we do, Zulip?<p>Yes, OK, I need to use Slack to participate in communities set-up by others.<p>Thank you Kandra Labs and Dropbox: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulip.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulip.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;</a>

I cant help but feel sorry for Salesforce engineers who will have to work on figuring out how to integrate the monolith with Slack and figure out the user permissions and access control nightmare.

2022: Salesforce announces Chat Cloud

I just installed an XMPP server (ejabberd). It&#x27;s amazing how much money is in things that are already solved freely. This is chat! CHAT! TEXTUAL CHAT WITH OCCASIONAL VIDEO CALLS! WebRTC is a thing! IRC&#x2F;XMPP is a thing! Sad techops people running out of things to host is a thing!

I&#x27;ve a dumb question as I don&#x27;t use salesforce daily persay, however I feel our corporate intranet has been &#x27;upgraded&#x27; to use a CRM style interface which may be salesforce SW as the backend, which I suspect purely as the url names have *force in them. To load the main home&#x2F;landing page there must be 10 redirects, taking many seconds. It just feels so bloated to use - so is this the norm for salesforce SW, or is it the case we may be using something else entirely, that is itself bloated?

Will get tough because Windows 11 has Teams integrated.

How much money did the typical Slack engineer get out of this?

Someone please correct my ignorance, but is the core of Salesforce (the traditional sales application) essentially a glorified CRUD app with integrations?

Why every successful product has to be bloatware?

I just sold all my $WORK shares on Monday. Curious, would my broker just have sold the shares and then issued some $CRM shares?

Probably the worst thing that could happen to Slack. The second least hip company in the world (#1 is IBM) buying a hip ChatOps platform. Time to move back to IRC or go to discord.

Interesting that it was <i>Salesforce</i> that went after them

Great! I can’t wait for Slack to perish.

Wonder if Atlassian still thinks it was a good idea to retire Hipchat and take 10% of Slack.

$27.7 billion. Seems quite high given Discord’s momentum. Haven’t really been spending much time on Slack for a couple years and most new companies&#x2F;projects seems to be selecting Discord. I suppose Salesforce has the money, though. I wonder if they are going to try to reposition it.

30 billion dollars is so unbelievably high for such a basic thing, that it makes me think some kind of money laundering is going on.<p>Meanwhile, the most advanced robotics company on earth got sold for less than 1 billion.<p>My mind boggles.