Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by slg on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:31PM (#25270192)

Is this specifically a problem with Salesforce? I think people would have this reaction with almost any company that purchases Slack. It represents a shift in focus from being a messaging company to being a piece of a bigger portfolio. That shift alone is much more important than whatever the other pieces in the portfolio happen to be.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by chadlavi on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:48PM (#25270422)

If it had been Microsoft buying them I would have been like, well, they've done ok with GitHub so far. And I begrudgingly feel that way as someone who reviles their flagship OS and office products.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by Axsuul on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:57PM (#25270525)

How do you feel about Heroku then? Salesforce purchased them about 8 years ago.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by chadlavi on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:05PM (#25270631)

I've never used it. But I did use a CRM product a while ago that got purchased by SalesForce, and it was a disaster.

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