Salesforce.com Named Top Business-to-Business Company of the Year

AlwaysOn credits salesforce.com for market traction, profitable operations and revolutionary impact of software-as-services model

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - July 16, 2003 - Salesforce.com®, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, announced today that it has been named the AO Business-to-Business Company of the Year by AlwaysOn, the media company that covers innovation in technology and business. Salesforce.com was selected from a field of 100 leading technology companies on the basis of profitability, market traction and the potential of its innovative software-as-service model to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Other winners included Google (AO Top Consumer Company of the Year) and Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL) applemusic.com (AO Top Innovator). Award recipients were chosen by AlwaysOn in partnership with KMPG's emerging business practice, KPMG 1Start, based in part on a survey of more than 1,000 venture investors, investment bankers, top entrepreneurs and executives.

Salesforce.com and the other award winners are featured at the AO2003: The Innovation Summit, currently taking place at the Stanford Law School on the Stanford University Campus. Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will present alongside representatives from Grand Central Communications, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) on a panel discussion of "Will Web Services Take Over the Software Industry?" on Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 11:15 PDT. Conference details and registration are available at www.always-on.net.

"With profitable operations, a fantastic technology and a software-as-service model that maximizes customer benefit, salesforce.com is a clear leader in the marketplace," said AlwaysOn Editor Tony Perkins. "We are very impressed with all that salesforce.com has accomplished in terms of customers, service and profitability, and expect great things from the company moving forward."

"Since inception, salesforce.com has been relentlessly focused on ensuring our customers' success through bringing about "The End of Software"," said Benioff. "We are now the first profitable software-as-service company with over 6,900 customers and 97,000 subscribers worldwide. This honor from AlwaysOn, and its member community, is further validation for salesforce.com's leadership and customer traction in client/service computing."

Salesforce.com was founded in March 1999 with the intent to make traditional enterprise software technology and business models obsolete. Four years later, salesforce.com is the world leader in delivering software-as-service, demonstrating how on-demand applications deliver immediate benefit without the substantial cost, resource, and time investment associated with enterprise software. The company recently advanced its leadership position with the launch of sforce, the new client/service application development platform, and salesforce.com S3, the strongest, smartest, and simplest way yet to manage customer relationships without software.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn (AO) is a media company dedicated to connecting global leaders and technology industry insiders whose ideas and innovations are shaping the always-on world. AO's founding premise is that consumers and businesses are demanding greater access to the Web for more convenience and productivity, and these demands are beginning to drive the next boom in high technology.

To serve its global membership, the company launched the AlwaysOn Network (www.alwayson-network.com) in January of 2003. The AO Network is pioneering a new form of participatory journalism that directly connects industry thought-leaders to their global constituency. The company will be bringing its online community to life on July 15 at AO2003: The Innovation Summit. AO2003 is an annual event held at Stanford Law School at Stanford University where global technology leaders analyze and debate the commercial opportunities surrounding emerging always-on technologies, services, and business strategies.

AlwaysOn, LLC, is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley.

About Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the 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, 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 Force.com AppExchange marketplace available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

As of July 31, 2008, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 47,700 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". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

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