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Slack-for-engineers Mattermost has said it plans to plough its $20m Series-A funding into privacy and security.
Mattermost is open source and, its CEO Ian Tien told The Register, is «by developers for developers» – words that usually strike fear into the heart of UI designers.
However, the messaging platform has proved popular with engineering teams, enamored by access to the code as well as the many, many add-ons published. A quick look at GitHub shows more than a thousand in various stages of development.
The platform has found fans ranging from Uber to the US Department of Defense (DoD), with access to the code as well as the option of self-hosting reassuring to those worried about their messages sitting on the servers of the competition.
Tien told El Reg that the attraction of Mattermost was portability, privacy and «to know exactly what it’s doing» with data. Such is the joy of open source and why many engineers like the thing.
Office 365 users and their ilk? Not so much. Mattermost, according to Tien, is «really focused on developer use cases».
