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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1806 points JustSkyfall | 2 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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Hobadee ◴[18 Sep 25 06:09 UTC] No.45286056[source]▶
This isn't just you. We have quite a few clients in this same boat. (One client is migrating to Teams in a couple of weeks for this exact reason.) We have quite a few RIA clients, and because of archiving requirements, this is happening to every single one of them. These aren't poor companies, but Slack is making it really hard to justify the expense anymore. We will have quite a few companies dump them when renewal comes around.
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beezlewax ◴[18 Sep 25 06:13 UTC] No.45286088[source]▶
Because microsoft would never do such a thing
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ivell ◴[18 Sep 25 06:20 UTC] No.45286150[source]▶
With moving to Azure and other MS tech, I am seeing companies consolidating their IT to mainly a single vendor. This is going to be a very risky situation, with MS having significant leverage over companies (in some cases ability to bankrupt the company if desired).
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SXX ◴[18 Sep 25 06:52 UTC] No.45286366[source]▶
Millions of businesses were also running single-vendor on Microsoft two decades ago back when they been much larger monopoly.

And I might not like MS tech, but I never heard any stories of rug-pulls and pricing changing x10 overnight.

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1. nhinck2 ◴[18 Sep 25 07:24 UTC] No.45286604[source]▶
Not overnight but I remember sql server licensing having a huge increase when they decided to pursue rent seeking via azure.
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2. p_l ◴[18 Sep 25 10:48 UTC] No.45288040[source]▶
And even then (let's say 2008), if you purchased the most expensive license (Enterprise processor license) and paid for all sockets (it was calculated per socket, not per core) you could run as many SQL Server instances with as many users as you wanted on that server, in however many VMs you needed. No subscription, permanent license. You might have to purchase support extensions if you wanted ability to call MS for issues, but that's separate thing and you can ignore it if you don't need it.