@salesforcenews: Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Informatica, a leader in AI-powered cloud data management. Together, we aim to accelerate a new enterprise data architecture, helping customers unlock the potential of data to power the AI future. https://www.salesforce.com/... Salesforce just dropped $8 billion to buy Informatica. Some quick thoughts: It's not for growth or revenue. It's for control over data. Salesforce already owns MuleSoft. Informatica has major overlap (data integration, quality, metadata, governance) Antitrust scrutiny is likely. They bought it anyway. AI is worthless without clean, unified data.