[apparent]

Typically when a company is acquired and the product is swiftly shut down, the value sought was the team. Although Salesforce has plenty of engineers, they may not have a team that does what the Clockwise team does.

[santoshalper]

Or they may just think the clockwise team is great and is willing to pay a small premium to get them.

[jacquesm]

That means that for the acquirees that was the only option on the table so GP is likely right.

[apparent]

Yeah, the question is how much they paid and what other options the Clockwise team had. I wasn't going to speculate about that, since I've no idea.