Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
Huge problem for on-prem Hipchat customers. Plenty of customers out there not willing to put all their internal communications on the other side of their firewall, and now have to migrate.<p>Slack doesn&#x27;t have an on-prem option.
Microsoft Teams doesn&#x27;t have an on-prem option.
What are enterprises supposed to use, RocketChat? Matrix? With no clear migration path?<p>Really poor move on Atlassian&#x27;s part. It would be one thing to sell off Stride, it isn&#x27;t doing well, work with Slack to have some kind of automated migration made available and let customers flip the switch. Maybe if Slack were to keep supporting Hipchat on-prem, or provide a migration path to a new Slack on-prem product, that&#x27;d be fine. But to leave HipChat on-prem customers out in the cold?<p>What&#x27;s the next Atlassian on-prem product to get thrown under the bus? Bamboo for sure, it&#x27;s been unpopular relative to Jenkins almost since its beginning. It&#x27;s definitely surprising that Fisheye&#x2F;Crucible get any support any more, or Crowd for that matter. But why not Confluence on-prem too? Do we have to worry that Atlassian will stop supporting Confluence on-prem in eight months because Office 365 keeps gaining marketshare?<p>Atlassian&#x27;s continued long-term support for minor on-prem products was one of the signals that said, if you pay up for HipChat on-prem, we&#x27;ll support you long-term, you&#x27;ll be fine. Atlassian completely shattered that with this announcement and eroded a lot of trust that enterprises were putting in them. Big shot in the foot here.