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This is the beauty and magic of open source, and why we are such strong believers in it (and we put our actions where our words are…we open sourced OpenZiti).Īs a zero trust provider, zero trust is important to both us and our customers. This means that helping to improve the open source – participating in the community in any number of ways – benefits everyone. Just like the open source benefits us, it benefits others.

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Because we control our core data, we have the capability to securely use best in class third party software (and SaaS) in the ways which best meets our needs. This doesn’t mean we don’t use third party software as part of our security. Messaging is at the nucleus of our business and security is not negotiable. We have direct access to the database (PostgreSQL – another great open source project).

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We control the architecture and retain full control and visibility of each byte of data. We can host the Mattermost servers anywhere. Mattermost open source helps give us the ability to innovate as the world changes. So we need the flexibility to change with an ever changing world. What will the world be like in 5 years? No idea. The world today is much different than it was before Covid-19 became part of our vocabulary. Mattermost, as an open source based solution, enables innovation in a way that closed SaaS often can’t match. We like to innovate, and innovation often requires extensibility, flexibility and control. Permissionless innovation and belief in open source Mattermost was up to the challenge, which meant we could make a decision based on core principles: For example, we needed Mattermost needed to prove that their solution had relative parity with Slack’s reliability, performance, robust search, third-party integrations and discussion efficiency features (e.g. In fact, we thought it would be a tough match in this case because reliable, robust communications solutions are critical to our ability to collaborate, and therefore ultimately integral to our ability to serve our customers with excellence. Unfortunately, not every tool we select can be a great match with our core principles – the tool of course needs to be a great fit for the job at hand. Permissionless innovation (which requires control, extensibility, flexibility.Why? Because of the core principles which matter the most to us: As a remote-first startup, we were heavy Slack users, so considering a switch to Mattermost caused some angst for many folks on our team.