[Dopameaner]

An observation, Microsoft subsidiaries are being told to use teams.

Cisco subsidiaries are being told to use webex in place of slack.

We might be in a new world of chaos

[noirbot]

I generally agree, but it also does feel like just an extension of dogfooding. If you work for a company that has a product that solves a certain business need, it generally makes sense that you wouldn't hire a different company to solve that need.

Obviously in this case the reasonable response is that Teams and WebEx are worse products and MS and Cisco haven't shown much inclination to fixing that, but that's more the fault of the company's bad products more than anything about the internals.

[bombcar]

And perhaps those companies having to eat their own shit will make them finally fix them.

[pm90]

I feel like this is a good argument to not allow mega mergers and consolidations. Github/LinkedIn etc could have both been operating as Public companies and not have to deal with this BS.

[johnbellone]

Why is this surprising?

[Dopameaner]

The surprising part of it is, it took so long to dogfood their products.