Slack could gain new inroads to enterprise customers, and access to
additional sales and marketing horsepower, if reports of its impending
acquisition by Salesforce come to fruition. The combination promises to
address one of Slack’s biggest relative weaknesses in its competition
with its largest rival, Microsoft Teams. The Redmond company’s
collaboration technology benefits from Microsoft’s existing relationships
with big businesses and organizations that use Windows, Azure, Office and
Dynamics — so much, in fact, that Slack alleges Microsoft unfairly
leverages its market position to give Teams an undue advantage. A deal
would also expand the longstanding rivalry between Salesforce and… Read
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, and
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. (Microsoft, Slack and Salesforce Photos,
GeekWire Illustration.) …
