HipChat slacked (I know..;) ). They had this IM for business covered. Then The Slack people came in and took the integration thing seriously.
HipChat seems to have felt the competition and now they are taking it seriously. I use HipChat with my distributed team and it works VERY well. HipChat has Android and Windows native clients and have now set up a serious API. The Windows app need some work though.
HipChat is free and you can get all and more of what Slack offers at a VERY affordable cost of $2/month.
HipChat also uses standardized protocol of XMPP.
Sqwiggle now looks like it could be very attractive to slack with their video technology. Except that raise a lot of money soon, I'm predicting an acquisition.
PS: I have no relationship with HipChat. I am just a happy user :)
HipChat seems to have felt the competition and now they are taking it seriously. I use HipChat with my distributed team and it works VERY well. HipChat has Android and Windows native clients and have now set up a serious API. The Windows app need some work though.
HipChat is free and you can get all and more of what Slack offers at a VERY affordable cost of $2/month.
HipChat also uses standardized protocol of XMPP.
Sqwiggle now looks like it could be very attractive to slack with their video technology. Except that raise a lot of money soon, I'm predicting an acquisition.
PS: I have no relationship with HipChat. I am just a happy user :)