Once upon a time, companies were created to make a product and sell it
It seems that, nowadays, companies are created to be bought by other companies. Is anyone still interested in actually running a company ?
I think it's a shame that this startup got bought - it had an interesting idea. Now that idea is folded into Salesforce, which means that not many people will benefit from whatever it was because Salesforce is not likely to develop the idea and open-source it.
And I also wonder how Salesforce is going to advance on infrastructure management when AWS is tasked for that job. On the other hand, Salesforce now has a great development environment - entire warehouses of kit that will be shut down after the switch. So maybe it is a good thing and we will see some progress on the matter of data loss in distributed environments.