Open nimishavijay opened 1 year ago
Not sure if you want additional solutions in this already great comparison, but I would like to add Matrix (#809) to the list. I would say Teams is the reference solution here as being the biggest competitor for all mentioned solutions, not in the last place because it tends to lock customers into the email-Office-Teams frame. IMO "just" chasing Teams to get feature compliant will keep one always behind the curve while the (or at least one of its) missions of NC is the need to do things better to stay relevant. Teams is, in my experience, not so friendly to work with, but part of an ecosystem of MS solutions. I think only having the same feature set may not be enough to convince customers to move to other solutions. To get ahead of the curve Matrix may add the needed features to NC/Talk that Teams does not (yet) have. Matrix adds like the ability to interact with other instances just like a role email provides today. By adding that protocol that would make one less dependent on email which is one of the primary reason customer moved to the cloud (O365, Google). As long as customers are locked in by their email I do not think they see much reason to move. Of cource MS also could implement the Matrix protocol into their solution, I eventually I think they will, but I think the postpone that as long as possible to maintain their lockin on email users. What helps is the increasing interest of organizations to move to Matrix solutions for (private) chat. Being able to integrate NC/Talk into such solutions may help customer to decide to move.
@sebastiaanveld I think what you mean by Matrix is you'd like for Talk to support Matrix Federation API. This could allow Talk server-to-server federation, but also to Matrix / Teamspeak / Gitter, etc.
View time zones of colleagues
NC Talk is missing the ability to integrate with a hardware conference room solution of any vendor,
Any conference room system that works with a PC/Laptop/Tablet/mobile Phone is compatible.
Citrix was tested and is used successfully, and in our own office rooms we use devices like the one from Konftel
Please note this is not another place for feature requests – use the issue templates for that. Here we want to have a quick overview of the market and competitors.
Slack allows to view colleagues time zones by browsing their profile (see "Ortszeit" in the attached image). That can be done by one click from PM view.
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That's also there in Nextcloud 26 and later as per https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/8518#issuecomment-1371800538
@nimishavijay want to check the state of "Drafts" across the other platforms? Related Talk issue is https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/3055
Some feedback. @nimishavijay what do you think?
@alexanderdd this isn't a marketing thing, just something engineering uses to make decisions on features. I'm saying - column order doesn't matter ;-)
I'll update the PDF we made for marketing, for which we used (most of) this data - but it isn't the same. Your point about BBB is relevant, though. But somebody has to do the research before we can add it :/
@nimishavijay I added BigBlueButton (last column before Talk). Can you check if my additions are clear, or if there are any questions?
@alexanderdd btw, if you are interested in also looking into Mattermost and rocket.chat or have done so already, feel free to add them as well. :) cc @nimishavijay
@jancborchardt it may be worth looking into what actually happened with the Nextcloud / Rocket.chat integration. It immediately failed. See the github repo here and the official Nextcloud announcement here. Rocket.chat has their support at https://open.rocket.chat but it seems no coordination ever took place as far as can be found publicly.
Not meaning to derail your thread, but since you've specifically asked about the rocket.chat platform it is worth looking into why integration efforts failed for another open source platform so clearly interested in Nextcloud support. I asked them about it 1.5 years ago, but got no response. Hope this helps glean more info, since I love both of these projects.
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Feature gap analysis for Nextcloud Talk against other widely used communication tools. If there are any existing issues regarding the features mentioned here, feel free to add links :) cc @jancborchardt
Last updated: May 2024
Talk gap analysis
Resources
MS Teams support website contains detailed tutorials on specific features