{"id":22304,"date":"2018-07-30T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22304"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:50:02","slug":"slack-and-atlassian-team-up-on-chat-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/30\/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-on-chat-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Slack and Atlassian Team Up on Chat Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-26\/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software\">Dina Bass and Ellen Huet<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17620543\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-26\/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software\"><p>Atlassian Corp. is selling its corporate chat software to rival Slack Technologies Inc. and taking a small stake in the startup, as they face greater competition from Microsoft Corp.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The deal gives Slack more customers, most of whom pay a monthly service fee, and allows Atlassian to exit a business that failed to generate as much demand as expected. Combining the two businesses bolsters Slack at a time when Microsoft is pushing a rival product called Teams to some 135 million Office cloud customers. Microsoft introduced a free version of Teams this month in a bid to lure people who don&rsquo;t subscribe to Office 365.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zapier.com\/blog\/slack-versus-hipchat\/\">Matthew Guay<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17627783\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/zapier.com\/blog\/slack-versus-hipchat\/\"><p>Stewart Butterfield&rsquo;s team didn&rsquo;t set out to make a chat app. Fresh off of Yahoo&rsquo;s acquisition of his team&rsquo;s photo-sharing app Flickr, he started a new company to build a game. His team hadn&rsquo;t set out to make Flickr, after all&mdash;that, too, started as a game before noticing the game&rsquo;s photo sharing tool was more popular than the game itself.<\/p>\n<p>The game didn&rsquo;t work out this time either. But on the side, they built a team chat app and pivoted to it instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dina Bass and Ellen Huet (via Hacker News): Atlassian Corp. is selling its corporate chat software to rival Slack Technologies Inc. and taking a small stake in the startup, as they face greater competition from Microsoft Corp.[&#8230;] The deal gives Slack more customers, most of whom pay a monthly service fee, and allows Atlassian to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-30T20:45:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"1749997a-1365-4865-b469-de8d84f24986","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-09-04T18:50:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AF0mZehNlSGW0ad6NhPJJhg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2475,101,827,37,1500,96],"class_list":["post-22304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-atlassian","tag-business","tag-chat","tag-microsoft","tag-slack","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22305,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304\/revisions\/22305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}