<story><title>HipChat is now free for unlimited users</title><url>https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/05/27/hipchat-is-now-free-for-unlimited-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>callmeed</author><text>The beauty of Slack, IMO, is in the nice integrations with &lt;i&gt;everything I already use&lt;/i&gt;. Does Hipchat&amp;#x2F;JIRA&amp;#x2F;Confluence do that? (I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know)&lt;p&gt;For a small team, there&amp;#x27;s no reason (for us at least) to move away from Trello, GitHub issues, etc.</text></item><item><author>aspir</author><text>People are making the valid comparison of Hipchat and Slack, which is to be expected. But, this is a deeper move by Atlassian.&lt;p&gt;Atlassian&amp;#x27;s business model is still &amp;quot;All roads lead to JIRA&amp;#x2F;Confluence.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s why so many of their products are free. This isn&amp;#x27;t as much a Hipchat v. Slack&amp;#x2F;IRC&amp;#x2F;Google&amp;#x2F;Campfire move, as adding another road to JIRA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david_shaw</author><text>HipChat has a nice API that allows us to shoot notifications from TribeHR, our Linux production boxes, code commits, Salesforce, etc. to our company-wide channels. It&amp;#x27;s a nice communication tool to use to keep the whole team on the same page.</text></comment>
<story><title>HipChat is now free for unlimited users</title><url>https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/05/27/hipchat-is-now-free-for-unlimited-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>callmeed</author><text>The beauty of Slack, IMO, is in the nice integrations with &lt;i&gt;everything I already use&lt;/i&gt;. Does Hipchat&amp;#x2F;JIRA&amp;#x2F;Confluence do that? (I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know)&lt;p&gt;For a small team, there&amp;#x27;s no reason (for us at least) to move away from Trello, GitHub issues, etc.</text></item><item><author>aspir</author><text>People are making the valid comparison of Hipchat and Slack, which is to be expected. But, this is a deeper move by Atlassian.&lt;p&gt;Atlassian&amp;#x27;s business model is still &amp;quot;All roads lead to JIRA&amp;#x2F;Confluence.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s why so many of their products are free. This isn&amp;#x27;t as much a Hipchat v. Slack&amp;#x2F;IRC&amp;#x2F;Google&amp;#x2F;Campfire move, as adding another road to JIRA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>semerda</author><text>HipChat integrates with Jira&amp;#x2F;Confluence&amp;#x2F;BitBucket&amp;#x2F;Bamboo et al. It is the only reason we are using it vs a host of tools sticky taped together with different interfaces.&lt;p&gt;As your team growths you will see the value in having a single unified set of tools that cover a majority of your needs vs a host of different tools chained together each providing a different experience, education and logins.</text></comment>