Salesforce Has to Prove Software’s Staying Power in AI Age
- Joseph K
- Sep 7, 2025
- 1 min read
has always been the poster-child for its particular corner of the technology world. That job has recently gotten a lot harder.
Salesforce isn’t the largest company providing enterprise software designed for corporate customers—Microsoft MSFT 0.55%increase; green up pointing triangle and Oracle ORCL 3.06%increase; green up pointing triangle both generate much more in annual revenue. But those other two also run their own giant cloud computing networks that are fetching strong new business powering AI workloads, such as those generated by ChatGPT. Salesforce’s business is fully dependent on selling cloud-based software services to large businesses.
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