
Silver Lake's potential Workday buyout could bolster battered software valuations by showing that private equity remains confident in the industry's prospects despite fears of AI disruption, analysts and investors said on Friday. Shares of the human-resources and financial management software company soared nearly 18% on Thursday after Reuters exclusively reported about its acquisition talks with Silver Lake, which pushed its market value to more than $51 billion. The enthusiasm provided some relief to a sector hammered this year by fears that AI tools capable of generating computer code and creating applications could erode the need for software services, which have long been one of Silicon Valley's most reliable cash generators.


















