But it wasn't so very long ago that Salesforce famously lost out on its chance to buy LinkedIn, which ultimately sold itself to Microsoft for $27.2 billion. If you squint, it's kind of funny that Salesforce is paying $27.7 billion for Slack, the workplace messaging chat app, in its largest acquisition ever. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Still, the so-called SlackForce deal could trigger a wave of M&A as other competitors, like Google Cloud and maybe Amazon Web Services, focus on the collaboration market.But like it or not, there's no way for Salesforce to chase that ambition without competing with Microsoft, which isn't easy.By tying data from Salesforce's business software with Slack chats, it helps achieve CEO Marc Benioff's decade-long ambition for the "social enterprise," where the gap between data and decision-making vanishes.Salesforce and Slack say that their $27.7 billion deal isn't about Microsoft, it's about a new way to work.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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