How Microsoft crushed Slack - It's extremely sad how Big Tech with a big bank balance can just wipe out individual innovation

The difference for me about Big Tech is their heart is just not in the product they wipe out. They have no commitment to it other than to really eliminate troublesome competition. In Microsoft's case think back on the different messengers eg. Skype, Yammer, and more. Google has done just the same and then just loses interest and kills it off.

I remember back in the day grappling with the dilemma of "best of breed products vs one ERP to do it all". I was never really in favour of one ERP because although the argument from the reseller is "look how well it all integrates" it was often a mediocre or patched together bunch of products. Oracle bought out Siebel, and we thought Wow their ERP suite would gain this... but no it did not, and we ever suffered with their patched sales solution.

Today I opt more for best of breed open source solutions where you get to own the solution for real. Yes it can be a bit more effort to implement but generally you have open standards to ease interoperability and ensuring you'll be able to read your data in 10 or 20 years time. Big Tech is going to try to lock you in - they don't want you to share data or interoperate between other clouds.

Sales patter is way better and more subtle than ever before but put your own interests first and think long term.

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