{"id":6561,"date":"2008-02-27T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T08:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/will-salesforcecom-be-sold.html"},"modified":"2008-02-27T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T08:51:38","slug":"will-salesforcecom-be-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/will-salesforcecom-be-sold.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Salesforce.com be Sold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Salesforce.com be sold soon? I keep hearing rumor after rumor and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/s\/is-salesforce-on-the-block\/newsanalysis\/techstockupdate\/10405120.html?puc=_tscrss\">say <\/a>Marc Benioff is getting bored. i haven&#8217;t had time to reach out to Marc but I thought it worth sharing the news. Likely purchasers would be Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt antitrust regulators would get that concerned if even Oracle made the acquisition based on the lack of actions they have taken in virtually all other acquisitions that seem anticompetitive.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot be more impressed with what Salesforce.com has done to date and as an independent company they have been an excellent counterbalance to&nbsp; some of the major software players in the space. <\/p>\n<p>It would be a real shame if the company is sold as I get the feeling the passion will leave the company in such a situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Salesforce.com be sold soon? I keep hearing rumor after rumor and some say Marc Benioff is getting bored. i haven&#8217;t had time to reach out to Marc but I thought it worth sharing the news. Likely purchasers would be Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. I doubt antitrust regulators would get that concerned if even Oracle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,215,163,199,211,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}