Salesforce acquisition: What Slack users should know

Salesforce’s $27.7 billion acquisition of team chat software vendor Slack was announced last week, with CEO Marc Benioff heralding the deal as a “match made in heaven” for the two companies. There are some clear upsides for both vendors. Salesforce can tap into a collaboration platform used daily by millions of knowledge workers and open a new front in its battle with Microsoft, while Slack gets to reignite its slowing growth under the ownership of a cloud giant with a global network of enterprise sales staff.

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