銷售軟件制造商Salesforce剛剛收購了一家能向Google Drive和微軟Office 365發起挑戰的公司。

本周一，Salesforce在提交給美國證監會的文件中稱，該公司斥資5.82億美元收購了在線文字處理服務行業新貴Quip。Salesforce此前曾通過旗下風投基金

Salesforce Ventures向這家初創公司投資。

Quip面向移動用戶，創始人是Facebook前首席技術官、谷歌工程師布萊特·泰勒。以前在臺式電腦上完成的各種各樣的工作正越來越多地轉移到移動設備上。Quip于2013年推出了云軟件，可以讓多名用戶一起創建和編寫文件。

這款軟件在文件旁邊添加了一個信息欄，其中可以看到所有相關信息和評價。Quip的想法是讓手機或平板電腦用戶更容易地編輯文件并發表評論。

Quip對個人用戶免費，每位小企業用戶每月須支付12美元使用費，大企業用戶須支付25美元。Facebook、藝電公司、CNN和New Relic都在使用這款產品。Quip已經從風投機構Benchmark和Greylock那里籌集了4500萬美元資金。

泰勒在博客上撰文指出，Salesforce和Quip有著相同的軟件哲學，那就是軟件應該以云為基礎，已社交和移動為核心。另外要說的是，泰勒還在推特擔任董事。

這個夏天Salesforce一直忙于收購。最近它買下了電子商務軟件公司Demandware，價格為28億美元。今年早些時候Salesforce曾對領英提出收購，但被微軟“橫刀奪愛”。2013年Salesforce還曾斥資25億美元收購了ExactTarget。（財富中文網）

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.