Salesforce has partnered with Alibaba to expand into the Asian software market in a bid to double revenue within four years to offset a recent slowdown in growth. Alibaba will sell Salesforce software in mainland China , Hong Kong , Hong Kong and Taiwan . With a growth rate that is double that of global growth, China is forecast to overtake the US and become the largest cloud market in the world by four years , accounting for more than half of the global market, according to Oracle . ’s Meanwhile, the US - China trade war has been blamed for staff cuts at Oracle and disappointing Q2 results from Alibaba .
Salesforce has partnered with Alibaba to expand into the Asian software market in a bid to double revenue within four years to offset a recent slowdown in growth. Alibaba will sell Salesforce software in mainland China , Hong Kong , Hong Kong and Taiwan . With a growth rate that is double that of global growth, China is forecast to overtake the US and become the largest cloud market in the world by four years , accounting for more than half of the global market, according to Oracle . Meanwhile, the US - China trade war has been blamed for staff cuts at Oracle and disappointing Q2 results from Alibaba .