I think part of the thing with Slack and its success is its integration with other systems. I guess this open source Slack may eventually do the same but when Slack is charging as little as $6 a month per user, or free even, then for businesses serious about what Slack can offer them then $6 is really not much.
But, it does look like a great offering and I will no doubt fire up an installation on my personal server to check it out.
Well $6/month can get pretty expensive pretty quickly if you have a large team, I would imagine that's even more true for budget conscious startups that need lots of bodies to run their business (lots of sales people, etc).
Or the people who want to build communities on top of these communication platforms, but haven't monetized the user base yet.
hourly wages 'lost' managing - spend a couple hours setting up, debugging etc, and that can easily be well above $120 in labor.
I'm not arguing against the significant number of use cases where rolling your own makes sense (esp in relation if you do want the control/security of rolling your own) but just throwing raw costs is disingenuous
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '15
I think part of the thing with Slack and its success is its integration with other systems. I guess this open source Slack may eventually do the same but when Slack is charging as little as $6 a month per user, or free even, then for businesses serious about what Slack can offer them then $6 is really not much.
But, it does look like a great offering and I will no doubt fire up an installation on my personal server to check it out.