salesforce.com is a market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM application, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform, available at http://www.force.com, can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. As of April 30, 2008, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 43,600 customers including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel, and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". Salesforce.com champions the power of the social enterprise. The company offers Internet-based applications that manage employee collaboration as well as customer information for sales (Salesforce Sales Cloud), marketing (Salesforce Marketing Cloud), and customer support (Salesforce Service Cloud), providing clients with a rapidly deployable alternative to traditional, more time-consuming and user-maintained software installations. Salesforce counts more than 100,000 users of its customer relationship management (CRM) software, and its customers come from a variety of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and entertainment. It generates most of its revenues from the US. (D&B; Data.com) (Sources: Salesforce; Bloomberg Business; Bing search; Crunchbase; D&G; Data.com; Fortune; Google Finance; Google search; Hoovers; LinkedIn; Reuters; Wikipedia; Yahoo Finance; Yahoo search; ResNet contributor Rick Rodgers)

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