Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a full analysis of the huge Salesforce Slack tie up. What HPE leaving Silicon Valley means, even if only symbolically,

Qualcomm's new flagship Snap Dragon ship, all the announcements from AWS Reinvent.

A smart watch with a nine-day battery life and putting holograms right on your mantle

might finally be getting practical.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Salesforce has announced it is buying slack in a 27.7 billion dollar deal that I believe is a mixture of cash and stock. That dollar figure represents a 64% premium over Slack's 16.8 billion dollar market

cap a week ago right before the rumors of the acquisition first leaked.

Quoting Tech Crunch.

Salesforce co-founder and CEO Mark Benyoff didn't mince words on his latest purchase.

Quote, this is a match made in heaven.

Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software

and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital work from anywhere world,

Bennyoff said in a statement.

And Slack CEO Stuart Butterfield was no less effusive than his future boss, quote,

as software plays a more and more critical role in the performance of every organization we share a

vision of reduced complexity, increased power and flexibility and ultimately a

greater degree of alignment and organizational agility. Personally I believe this is the most strategic combination in the history of software

and I can't wait to get started, Butterfield said in a statement.

Ultimately, Slack was ripe for the taking. Entering 2020, it had lost around 40% of its value since it went public.

Consider that after its most recent earnings report, the company lost 16% of its value and before the sales force deal leaked, the company was worth only a few dollars per share more than its

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