It announced that Salesforce purchased Slack, the internal communication platform for $ 27.7 billion.
Slack increased its popularity after many industries switched to the home-to-work model in the corona virus outbreak.
Salesforce, a cloud-based software company headquartered in the USA, acquired Slack for $ 27.7 billion.
According to the news in CNN International, this went down in history as the highest fee paid for a San Francisco-based cloud company. In-house communication platform Slack has increased its popularity after many sectors switched to home-to-work model in the corona virus pandemic.
Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff said in a statement regarding the sale: “Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and completely change the way it works. Business can be done from anywhere in the world. ”
Speaking about the deal, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said, “I believe this is the most strategic gathering in software history.”