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Love the fact people are adopting Opensource solutions but corporates won’t budge. I think the hardest penetration for anyone right now is Microsoft Teams. Since they started bundling teams with Office they have been able to boast about numbers and actually hurt Slack. I wonder what is roadmap for Mattermost. Shameless plug I myself did an opensource version of a chat server called raspchat https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat which was able to handle almost 5K very active chatters on a Raspberry Pi Model B (Just 512 MB of RAM). My original dream was to build a drop and run server on cheap raspberry pi for local areas but man has to feed his family and I had to make a tough choice. It’s harsh IMHO out there to get attention and then convince folks to develop integrations for you. I hope this space doesn’t endup with duopoly and products like Mattermost take off.

Mattermost CEO here,

Awesome work on raspchat! And thanks for the kind words.

Often we see users and customers have both Microsoft Teams for Office365 users and Mattermost as the "developer's choice" given the open source code base and flexibility in high security environments.

Per the article, the market is very large, and there's many different user segments to serve. Therefore there should be multiple winners here, in my mind. I think this category is only just starting.

In my org we have Teams and Slack (and Skype for Business!). Corporate (and our one token diehard Microsoft fanboy) gave a weak effort at pushing Teams, but everyone was already on one of the other two so for us Teams is just sitting on our computers like an appendix that's useless but also just enough effort to cut out that it stays in.

I have the inverse. The only thing _everyone_ is on is teams. Slack is too expensive and introducing yet another chat program is not going to be met with anything other than resistance.

I really dislike teams.

My response to someone insisting on using only Microsoft Teams is: What if Teams goes down? How is the IT team going to coordinate bringing it back up? Email? SMS?

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