According to foreign media reports, a source said that the US enterprise software company salesforce plans to purchase enterprise communication platform slack, with a scale of more than 17 billion US dollars. If the deal is successful, it will be another large-scale acquisition in the software industry. According to US media reports on the 25th, salesforce plans to acquire slack at a price that may exceed its current market value of $17 billion. The deal is likely to be announced next week. The news pushed the shares of slack up 38% on the 25th, with a market value of more than $20 billion. Salesforce, which focuses on enterprise customer relationship management services and is based on cloud services, fell 3% after the news. The novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic has been further increased by the cloud business demand in
, according to analysis. If the deal is successful, it may trigger a chain reaction in the field of cloud software transactions. Once the transaction is successful, salesforce may enhance its competitiveness against companies such as Microsoft, and Microsoft's teams are the powerful competitors of slack. < / P > < p > it is reported that Microsoft has launched a competition with salesforce in the field of customer tracking software. In 2016, it was reported that Microsoft tried to buy slack for $8 billion, but failed to reach an agreement. Subsequently, Microsoft launched its own similar application teams. Some analysts have pointed out that Microsoft has a large customer reserve that can be used by teams, and slack can also benefit from the large number of users of salesforce. In October 2019, slack said it had about 12 million active users a day, according to a report on the consumer news and business channel website. In October, Microsoft said its teams had 115 million active users per day. < / P > < p > once the acquisition is successful, it will become one of the largest transactions in the software industry. Previous large-scale mergers and acquisitions in the software industry include: IBM acquired red hat for $34 billion in 2019; Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $27 billion in 2016; and Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014. In recent years, salesforce has acquired many fast-growing technology enterprises. It is reported that in 2018, salesforce acquired mulesoft, a data software company, to help it access cloud applications at a transaction price of $6.5 billion; in 2019, it acquired tableau, a digital visualization tool company, at a price of $15.3 billion. In the May July quarter, salesforce's revenue was $216 million, up 49% year-on-year. The company currently has about 130000 paying customers. Salesforce will release its latest quarterly results next week. (reporter Wang Jing)