Blog Watch: Salesforce to Sell to Oracle?
February 11, 2008
The wildfire of conjecture continues to spread via the blogosphere today.
If you haven’t heard yet, a rumor was started this weekend about the possible sale of Salesforce to Oracle.
Here’s what the blogosphere had to say:
Salesforce.com For Sale?
Silicon Valley Watcher reports of rumours that Salesforce is trying to pitch itself to Oracle for $9 B. That’s about $75 a share. Considering that Oracle’s CEO, Larry Ellison, has a 74.1% stake in Netsuite; this is actually a pretty interesting rumour. This would signify a huge consolidation of the two largest on-demand vendors.
http://www.warriorpoint.com/blog/2008/02/10/salesforcecom-for-sale/
On Salesforce.com and Oracle
Rumour has it that Salesforce.com has asked Oracle to buy it. If that deal goes through it would be interesting to see what that means for CRM on Demand as a hosted platform and how Salesforce.com is going to be integrated into fusion. …
CRM Views - News and views on… - http://crm-view.blogspot.com/
Is Salesforce Worth $75/Share To Oracle?
I’m hearing from a reliable source that Salesforce.com has approached Oracle to gauge if there is any interest in a sale at $75 a share. That would be almost a 50 per cent premium over Friday’s close of $50.87. …
BEE: Conversational Media - http://www.personalbee.com/227
Salesforce.com in play?
Because like Yahoo! would teach Microsoft about infrastructure of cloud computing, salesforce.com could teach the big outsourcers a thing or two about next generation SLAs and price points. If it happens, it better be at a whopping …
Deal architect - http://dealarchitect.typepad
Is Salesforce Worth $75/Share To Oracle?
I’m hearing from a reliable source that Salesforce.com has approached Oracle to gauge if there is any interest in a sale at $75 a share. That would be almost a 50 per cent premium over Friday’s close of $50.87. …
BEE: Venture Capital And Startups - http://www.personalbee.com/261
May The Force By With You
Tom Foremski of SiliconValleyWatcher blog published an excellent analysis of how Salesforce.com has apparently, from his sources, approached Oracle to sell the company for $75 a share, almost a 50% premium over the existing share price …
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how horrible would that be! I’m not sure I would want to be part of the Saleforce if they sold out!
I hope they don’t sell out for a while myself. It tends to change the perception of a company..especially one with such a loyal user community and following.
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