Don't forget Mattermost - they're the most Slack-like of the free Slack alternatives (and pretty doggone spiffy, IMHO).
We've switched to Zulip which has a real nice messaging threading model. For us it was really a productivity saver and I really recommend anyone to try Zulip!
Yeah, a lot of enterprises are using Mattermost these days. Uber left Slack and HipChat to use Mattermost for company-wide deployment: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ditches-hipchat-slack-to...