<p>TBH,</p>
<p>I would question the reason for it to be on-premise, since nowadays the trend is to look for SaaS solutions (so, nothing to maintain from an IT / Ops point of view).</p>
<p>Slack has a free plan as long as your team is not concerned about message retention or multi-calls/video.</p>
<p>I don't see the reason to have yet another piece of software to be installed/configured/maintained/patched/secured etc
when there are so many players out there which lift all of this out (for a price, of course), so if this is a case of &quot;<em>my boss doesn't want it to be on the cloud/not under his control</em>&quot; or b***shit like that, I would question the real need for it to be on-prem.</p>
<p>Even the old Skype4Business (therefore, Microsoft) dropped its on-prem installation in favour of Teams through Office365...</p>
<p>Again, my thought.</p>

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<p>I started my graduation internship two weeks ago. My assignment is to look for a Slack alternative that'll be able to deploy on-premise. A lot of things need to be automated. I already did some research and found some interesting platforms like Mattermost, Zulip, Rocket.chat.</p>
<p>I was wondering if someone has any recommendations that really worth diving into? Also would like your extensive arguments about topics like user interface, integrations/webhooks/bots, security, scalability and so on.</p>

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Bij het deployen en implementeren komen er DevOps zaken bij kijken.. Dus het lijkt me niet heel ver weg van DevOps. Heb je een suggestie voor een andere community? @Pierre.Vriens
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# Collaboration tools recommendations like Slack

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-12)

I started my graduation internship two weeks ago. My assignment is to look for a Slack alternative that'll be able to deploy on-premise. A lot of things need to be automated. I already did some research and found some interesting platforms like Mattermost, Zulip, Rocket.chat.

I was wondering if someone has any recommendations that really worth diving into? Also would like your extensive arguments about topics like user interface, integrations/webhooks/bots, security, scalability and so on.

**Tags:** devsecops, slack

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> **username_0**: Bij het deployen en implementeren komen er DevOps zaken bij kijken.. Dus het lijkt me niet heel ver weg van DevOps. Heb je een suggestie voor een andere community? @Pierre.Vriens  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-09-16. Score: 1

TBH,

I would question the reason for it to be on-premise, since nowadays the trend is to look for SaaS solutions (so, nothing to maintain from an IT / Ops point of view).

Slack has a free plan as long as your team is not concerned about message retention or multi-calls/video.

I don't see the reason to have yet another piece of software to be installed/configured/maintained/patched/secured etc
when there are so many players out there which lift all of this out (for a price, of course), so if this is a case of "*my boss doesn't want it to be on the cloud/not under his control*" or b\*\*\*shit like that, I would question the real need for it to be on-prem.

Even the old Skype4Business (therefore, Microsoft) dropped its on-prem installation in favour of Teams through Office365...

Again, my thought.

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