Salesforce’s Slack deal poses most marked threat to Microsoft
‘Slack is probably a bigger threat to Microsoft … than Salesforce is because Slack’s use case hits at the heart of Microsoft’s information worker’s productivity suite,’
02 December 2020 - 17:34
Salesforce.com’s $27.7bn takeover of Slack Technologies represents co-founder Marc Benioff’s most aggressive effort yet to challenge reigning software marker Microsoft.
The cash-and-stock deal, announced Tuesday and expected to close by July, will bring a workplace-communications application that’s grown more popular during the coronavirus pandemic to Salesforce’s ever-expanding platform. In the process, the app maker will come into greater conflict with the world’s largest software company, which offers a competing product named Teams...
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