The Company "Salesforce" is forbidding its customers from selling AR15's and etc etc

[grayfox]

In Fox business today:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/sales...g-software

"Salesforce has updated its acceptable-use policy, telling its customers to either stop selling certain firearms or forget about using its software."


..."The tech giant’s policy states that it was barring customers that sell select firearms, including certain semi-automatic firearms, 3D printed guns, ghost guns, and firearms without serial numbers. The policy also forbids customers from selling certain firearm accessories, including 'multi-burst trigger devices.' ” .. and

Washington Compost first reported this story...

from its revised "policy":
" Firearms: automatic firearms; semi-automatic firearms that have the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any of the following: thumbhole stock, folding or telescoping stock, grenade launcher or flare launcher, flash or sound suppressor, forward pistol grip, pistol grip (in the case of a rifle) or second pistol grip (in the case of a pistol), barrel shroud; semi-automatic firearms with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds; ghost guns; 3D printed guns; firearms without serial numbers; .50 BMG rifles; firearms that use .50 BMG ammunition. Firearm Parts: magazines capable of accepting more than 10 rounds; flash or sound suppressors; multi-burst trigger devices; grenade or rocket launchers; 80% or unfinished lower receivers; ... and threaded barrels that can accept a flash suppressor or sound suppressor."


This is a $120 Billion dollar company.

[A5BLASTER]

Was just reading a thread about this over on the hunting beast fourm.

All I can add is. I ain't never heard of this company before today. And won't be doing business with them after today.

Hope they go bankrupt. Stupid snowflakes.

[SightedIn]

Sounds like a great opportunity for a competitor to seize the moment and gain market share

[Double Naught Spy]

Hope they go bankrupt. Stupid snowflakes.

With 40K employees and being a $120 billion company, that isn't apt to happen very easily. Their company has grown very well since going public in 2004 and currently they hold about 18% of their market. They may be snowflakes, but they apparently are good at what they do.

Sounds like a great opportunity for a competitor to seize the moment and gain market share

Their main competition are companies such as Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, Veeva, and SAP. I would highly doubt any of them are going to try to seize the gun market, at least not publicly.

[grayfox]

All so true. I remember when they were first starting out, I was in another Silicon Valley type startup in a diff industry about the same time...
Still torques me to see it.
It's primarily a biz-to-biz software company. SAP and Oracle their big competitors.
Camping world uses them according to the article, but I'll bet they can find a substitute, CW needs mostly customer relations mgt and SF is a front-to-back sales tracking type of software, prospects-leads-proposals-sales-etc... least that's what they started out as.