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Woah, Slack has bought Hipchat and Stride from Atlassian! https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/26/slack-acquires-hipchat-and-stride-from-atlassian/ Whilst they were niche players, Hipchat was one of the few on-premises commercial group chat products available.

Atlassian created Stride in 2017, already had Hipchat, and it's now deprecating both in favour of Slack: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership Consolidation is happening very quickly! It reduces the number of self-hosted options though.

What's the largest tech company you've dealt with that had genuine, helpful support? Atlassian have done a good job IME.