銷售軟件制造商Salesforce剛剛收購(gòu)了一家能向Google Drive和微軟Office 365發(fā)起挑戰(zhàn)的公司。

本周一，Salesforce在提交給美國(guó)證監(jiān)會(huì)的文件中稱，該公司斥資5.82億美元收購(gòu)了在線文字處理服務(wù)行業(yè)新貴Quip。Salesforce此前曾通過(guò)旗下風(fēng)投基金

Salesforce Ventures向這家初創(chuàng)公司投資。

Quip面向移動(dòng)用戶，創(chuàng)始人是Facebook前首席技術(shù)官、谷歌工程師布萊特·泰勒。以前在臺(tái)式電腦上完成的各種各樣的工作正越來(lái)越多地轉(zhuǎn)移到移動(dòng)設(shè)備上。Quip于2013年推出了云軟件，可以讓多名用戶一起創(chuàng)建和編寫文件。

這款軟件在文件旁邊添加了一個(gè)信息欄，其中可以看到所有相關(guān)信息和評(píng)價(jià)。Quip的想法是讓手機(jī)或平板電腦用戶更容易地編輯文件并發(fā)表評(píng)論。

Quip對(duì)個(gè)人用戶免費(fèi)，每位小企業(yè)用戶每月須支付12美元使用費(fèi)，大企業(yè)用戶須支付25美元。Facebook、藝電公司、CNN和New Relic都在使用這款產(chǎn)品。Quip已經(jīng)從風(fēng)投機(jī)構(gòu)Benchmark和Greylock那里籌集了4500萬(wàn)美元資金。

泰勒在博客上撰文指出，Salesforce和Quip有著相同的軟件哲學(xué)，那就是軟件應(yīng)該以云為基礎(chǔ)，已社交和移動(dòng)為核心。另外要說(shuō)的是，泰勒還在推特?fù)?dān)任董事。

這個(gè)夏天Salesforce一直忙于收購(gòu)。最近它買下了電子商務(wù)軟件公司Demandware，價(jià)格為28億美元。今年早些時(shí)候Salesforce曾對(duì)領(lǐng)英提出收購(gòu)，但被微軟“橫刀奪愛”。2013年Salesforce還曾斥資25億美元收購(gòu)了ExactTarget。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：Charlie

審校：詹妮

Salesforce has just acquired a challenger to Google Drive and Microsoft’s Office 365.

The sales software company said in an SEC filing on Monday that it paid $582 million for Quip, an upstart online word processing service. Salesforce was previously an investor in the startup through its venture fund, Salesforce Ventures.

Quip, the brainchild of former Facebook chief technology officer and Google engineer Bret Taylor, is a built for mobile, which people are using increasingly for a wide range of work formally done on desktop computers. Launched in 2013, Quip’s cloud-based software let users create documents and work on them together.

A column that appears next to documents shows all messages and comments made about it. The idea is to make it easier to edit and comment from a mobile phone or tablet.

Quip is free for individual users while small companies pay $12 per user per month. Larger enterprises pay $25 per user per month. Customers include Facebook, Electronic Arts, CNN, and New Relic. Quip has raised $45 million from Benchmark and Greylock.

In a blog post, Taylor explained that Salesforce and Quip share the same philosophy about software—that it should be cloud-based, social and mobile-focused. As a side note, Taylor also sits on Twitter’s board of directors.

Salesforce has had a busy summer when it comes to acquisitions. The company recently bought e-commerce software company Demandware for $2.8 billion. Salesforce made a bid for LinkedIn earlier this year, but lost the deal to Microsoft. It also bought ExactTarget for $2.5 billion in 2013.