Actually the opposite: they came into their prime after the acquisition. Probably not due to Salesforce, but still.

I can't believe that it has been over 15 years ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982489

Strong disagree. They didn’t even invent buildpacks until 2011, the year after the acquisition.

It’s just in coma, slowly dying away on a respirator. Some relatives irrationally keep paying the hospital to keep the patient alive, but the doctors just wait until they can finally pull the plugs and use the bed for someone with actual chances of survival.

I think the downhill slide started when they introduced the "Private Space Peering". It is a wrapper on top of AWS VPC, but it was something like $1000 a month several years ago. It also was gating larger instances and other important features.

So few people used it. I guess this provided a negative signal to their management about the adoption rate of new features. And then everything eventually just died.