HIPAA compliance doesn't mean anything unless they're willing to sign a BAA with their customers' organizations. Perhaps they're signing BAAs now, but in the recent past (~6 months ago), I asked and they weren't signing them.
This reminds me of Aaron Levie’s recent take on Kara Swisher’s podcast - on how enterprise software is going to be either about Microsoft (jack of trades) or about a collection of smaller companies (specialists in their fields) integrated with one and other. Slack and Atlassian focusing on what makes them great and working together makes a lot of sense
Levie is wrong. His personal bias is showing: an over optimism that Box can survive as an independent long-term. It's going to be Microsoft and other giants. There's no scenario where Slack remains an independent company, for the exact same reason there was never a scenario where Github remained an independent company. It'll be surprising if Slack is still independent three years from now.
It's perpetual consolidation in enterprise, nothing has changed about that in decades. Microsoft eats Github. Atlassian eats Slack (or some other company does). Maybe Atlassian is the next Oracle, or maybe Oracle or Salesforce or SAP or Microsoft eats Atlassian.
The one thing every scenario has in common: the little fish don't stick around and cooperate, they all get eaten and merged into ever larger companies. Nothing can stop that process, all the little fish have shareholders more than willing to sell when the big price comes in from the giants.
PeopleSoft, Siebel, Sun, MySQL, Great Plains, Sybase, Business Objects, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Concur, RightNow, Taleo, MuleSoft, Demandware, ExactTarget, etc etc
It's the same thing going on over and over again. The little fish never stick around. Box will end up in someone's stomach just the same as the rest.
What big corp wants to own the liability of Mailchimp? The minute you crack down harder on customers using spammy email lists, the revenue picture changes dramatically.
The big fish (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) will continue to buy smaller companies until governments steps in and breaks them up in an anti-trust suit. The EU will lead that charge. The writing is on the wall.
if the EU just wants to fine the big tech companies out of existence, then the big tech companies will just stop doing business there. The EU cannot break those US companies up. If disproportionately large fines (e.g. the fine Google recently paid) continue, the tech companies will just leave - which may be what the EU wants, but it also seems that the EU is pretty bad at creating technology companies
Other big social networks have a very different business model. Because they ask users to pay directly for the service, as opposed to ads on UI, using Slack via API or UI shouldn't really matter to them.
yes, you're right. However, the slack RTM API can still support IRC clients (with a little more work - need to setup the IRC server, like [1]). The API is like a superset that way.
This is neat. Have you seen any issues with using legacy tokens instead of normal OAuth? I made an extension[1] for using Slack inside VS Code during pair programming sessions - and it doesn't seem to work for enterprise users with legacy tokens.
1. In Gitlab, after you get +2, you can still commit changes and merge. Gerrit will make sure that you seek +2 again on the new set of commits. 2. Gerrit allows you to create draft comments on review and submit all comments in one shot after u reveiew them. 3. Require +2 rather then two +1 is a very interesting idea in Gerrit
This table is our aggregated view that gets triggered if there's a lot of comments that would spam the PR.
The code review functionality is completely open source at code.gitmate.io FWIW.
We grew from the whole review thing into automation for PRs (setting lots of labels for PRs automatically, managing review queues; it's all in GitMate) and eventually started with issues. Our next step is to split the review and issues because this is becoming very hard to communicate marketing wise ;)
