Why IBM spent $200 million to buy a huge Salesforce partner with Marc Benioff's blessing (IBM, CRM, ORCL)
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In IBM's new mission to become the king of the up-and-coming cloud computing market, the company made an acquisition on Thursday that, on its face, seems sort of puzzling. IBM bought big Salesforce partner Bluewolf Group.
IBM didn't disclose the price paid, but unnamed sources told Re/code it paid over $200 million.
And the two companies that should be annoyed are SAP and Oracle.
This is not a move by IBM to snatch Salesforce's customers away.
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