My small company (less than 30 employees) has been using Skype for internal group meetings and messaging. Since it's closing, we're looking for alternatives.
I think few people in the company are privacy minded (one of the higher ups had to get scolded to stop using some random AI to listen to all his meetings and write summaries), so we need something with a low barrier to entry.
We have basically no IT department, so self hosting would be a challenge. We do self host a redmine server via docker, and we have to connect to it via VPN when we're off-site (we have several full time remote employees).
Our feature requirements are:
-Group and individual messaging
-Screen sharing
-Meetings up to 2 hours
-Inexpensive
-Meetings with up to 10 participants
-Windows (some people use Skype from their phones also, but not a requirement)
-Minimal friction to setup and use
-Minimal bugs (mature)
Some of the ideas floated:
-Teams
-Discord
-Google Meet
-Signal
-Telegram
-Jami
I really don't think we could pull off Matrix, but am I wrong? Which of these ideas bothers you the least? Is there something else I'm overlooking?
We don't have 365 licenses, so it's $4/user/month that we weren't paying before. But this was my chance to get the company on something better, so I was investigating options.
I really think the hour meeting limitation is going to be a problem for the free accounts, but dealing with that seems more likely than the company paying $800/year, or whatever the headcount is.
Teams is sort of a drag though. Very resource intensive for what it does. But if everyone in your company has ram and CPU to spare, it’s mostly painless.