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Just curious, what Salesforce aquisitions ruined a product? The only ones I know of are Heroku, Quip, and Tableau. I don't see any mention of Salesforce other
by turtlebits 6y ago
Just curious, what Salesforce aquisitions ruined a product? The only ones I know of are Heroku, Quip, and Tableau. I don't see any mention of Salesforce other than optional integrations.
- ivraatiems 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce#Acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce#Acquisitions lists a ton of companies I'm not familiar with that look like they were mostly absorbed. Beyond that, I'm not sure, but it's more of a reputational judgment I'm making. I'm not sure I can think of a time when an acquisition or merger ever made a product better for the users.
- mark_l_watson 6y agoI had forgotten that they bought Heroku. As far as I know, Heroku is still as cool as when I used to frequently use it. Time will tell how it goes with the Slack acquisition.
- ryanSrich 6y agoAside from it being absurdly expensive and understaffed for support and CS. I mostly agree.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoClient services?
- borski 6y agoYeah, but that was true even before the acquisition. It was so easily self-service that that didn't matter very much, but it was definitely always true.
- thrwn_frthr_awy 6y agoHeroku kept getting more and more complicated. I remember when you could just push a Rails app to Heroku and everything would just work. That kept getting more and more challenging.
- quickthrower2 6y agoI found it very easy for pushing a nodejs app recently. Can't speak to rails.
- fossuser 6y agoQuip has remained stagnant/degraded since purchase. I don't expect it to ever get any better than it is right now (which is a pretty mediocre product). Salesforce software feels like Atlassian to me - lots of stuff, pretty much all of which is just ok. I expect slack will similarly decay over time as another generic offering from them, but I guess we'll see.
- Jach 6y agoQuip has gotten better, but unlike Slack it didn't start out already good, so the gains have been minimal. Part of it was lack of interest from the inside, where it competes with people just wanting to use or keep using google docs / github / confluence / a few holdouts on google sites and who will always complain about Quip. I suspect core Slack will remain about the same and the focus will turn towards Salesforce integrations that most Slack users won't know or care about.
- krona 6y agodesk.com. They shut it down this year. Personally I didn't like Desk, but it's still better than the Salesforce 'replacement'.