So guys what I want to do today is dive into the official announcement from Atlassian and
Slack I want to dive into how HipChat
And stride are being purchased by slack it to be embedded in their team communication software. Now as you many of you guys know
Atlassian is a massive company and slack is also a big company and growing and this is a massive move in the space
So I want to dive into the partnership
I want to dive into where I think this is going from Slack and hopefully it will give you a nice outline of everything
So as you can imagine Atlassian is quite a big company now
They own a host of different resources JIRA many products inside JIRA Status page
Confluence Trello which many of you guys know?
Bitbucket sauce tree bamboo fisheye crucible and crowd mainly used by developers
And they have a whole host of resources
Now one of their products HipChat which was created in 2010 seven years later in September 2017
It was partly replaced by
stride now stride is a Lyceum's attempt at a team communication tool allowing teams to
Chat and communicate across a day now as solid as slack has been progressing. They've been dominating the market
Obviously, there are plenty of other alternatives out there like the likes of twist and stride was one of them and they were always sort
Of trying to battle in friendly competition with slack even sometimes posting on social media nice friendly birthday updates
And also some teasing each other about cake and cookies on social media, which is amazing now as you can imagine
Alison sort of have been thinking over a long period of time a years a good period of time to
Sort of been looking at that
How how well slight strides going and as you can imagine they made the decision and slack decided to purchase
The likes of HipChat and stride. Now. How does that exactly work?
So Atlassian has made an equity investment in slack and slack has acquired the IP
For stride and HipChat clout which sadly both will be discontinued now
You probably wonder when that will actually happen now. They have mentioned that the discontinued
meant discontinued of stride and HipChat will be on February 15 of
2019 now it's weirdly the day after Valentine's Day. Maybe that's so that you can break up after Valentine's Day
So as you can imagine they've made all the statements they have Alison saying this is the most strategic
move forward and also
stating that there will be deepening the integrations between slack JIRA clowned bitbucket cloud and also Trello and
A few more creations of new integrations inside of that products now
They're not abandoning their original vision of the product. Mainly just seeing that a partnership will blend in with the mission
That slack is working on
So guys as you can imagine, this is a huge deal for both companies and my personal opinion
is that slack will be taking its popularity and combining it with two elements now stride for many people who don't know has a
Gorgeous UI now. I think the you I have stride just looks great and works phenomenally
Now I can see that they'll sort of blend those experiences together
I can see that a lot of people are getting a bit bored with the slack UI
Slack UI is good, but it just doesn't do anything
Above the board it looks fairly regular hasn't changed for quite a while now and I think stride will and that beauty in there
I think he'll chat will provide a lot of sort of stability functions and a way for them to just continue progressively growing
I do definitely see slack growing in the future. I remember the first time that I started using slack. It was back in
2013 I remember onboarding the team that I work with at a time on it
And I never saw it roundabout now every time I walk in a coffee shop
I end up finding someone who is using slack which is pretty amazing in the space of like four or five years
especially to have grown too rapidly so I can imagine stride will be
Integrated inside of slats UI but we'll definitely be seeing in the future
It's something that we have to keep our eyes open for and definitely see where the slack will be working on that sign stuff
Anyway, guys, hopefully you enjoyed this short update. Hopefully it gives you enough insight into this update
Just a little mouthful from me on the August first. I'll be releasing tools
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Anyway guys a huge huge. Thank you for stopping by today
Make sure to pop in the comments whether you're a strive user HipChat user. It'd be great to hear your opinions on this latest announcement
Anyway, guys, make sure have a great week keep productive and I'll see you guys very very soon