We are proud of the thousands of people in the Mattermost open source community and know that, collectively, they represent more creativity and innovation than any single vendor could ever provide. Like countless products before us have shown, being open source is key to innovation. Open source: Mattermost is the leading open source messaging platform.The principles of openness, modern architecture, and developer-centricity are at the heart of all great internet platforms, and to maximize the potential of messaging, we think it’s essential that the space have a participant that will represent them. And that’s why we think Mattermost’s role is more important than ever. So while we don’t know exactly where this will lead, we do know that this second chapter will be shaped by the values at the core of each vendor’s approach. The second is likely to be even more interesting and impactful. The Slack acquisition is the end of the first chapter in the development of this space. But one thing for certain is that it’s virtually inevitable. It’s impossible to tell how messaging will integrate itself more deeply into company communications and workflows, tying together not just people but also applications-or how it will create new ways of communicating and working with customers.
Those innovations have woven themselves into our lives in ways we could have scarcely imagined at a similar point in their development, and the same will prove true of messaging. And what the history of every other new platform tells us-be it smartphones, streaming video services, or even the web itself-is that we are only at the beginning. It’s remarkable to consider that all of this has happened in just the seven years since Slack’s original launch. While not the norm at every company today, it’s hard to think of a business or industry that won’t have messaging at its center in the future. New investment and competition promises to supercharge this shift-and make messaging mainstream. With Salesforce’s recent acquisition of Slack-one of the largest software acquisitions in history-the market is now recognizing both the practical importance and the strategic role of this new communications mode. The importance of messaging tools-like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Mattermost-is well-known to those who have already made this shift. Messaging-the ability to synchronously communicate with teams, coordinating work and workflows-is at the center of this new mode of day-to-day business life. The internet is changing all aspects of business communication, and with more of us than ever working remotely, it’s a change that is accelerating.
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