Start Magazine Names Salesforce.com one of "The Hottest Companies of 2005"

Leading manufacturing technology magazine for C-level executives praises salesforce.com for innovative on-demand applications and highly satisfied customer base

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — August 30, 2005 — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the technology and market leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced that Start Magazine, a leading manufacturing technology magazine for C-level executives, has named salesforce.com as one of "The Hottest Companies of 2005." The award, presented in the July/August 2005 issue, is based on a survey of the leading movers and shakers across the entire global technology landscape.

"The companies selected for Start's Hottest Companies of the Year showed remarkable innovation in a challenging environment. I commend them for helping manufacturers compete in the global marketplace and make the most out of all of their available resources," said Peggy Smedley, editorial director of Start Magazine. "We are excited to award salesforce.com and the other winners with one of the industry's highest honors and believe they represent the best of the best in manufacturing technology."

"We are delighted to be included in Start Magazine's assessment of the boldest and brightest in today's high technology marketplace," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com's innovative, industry leading on-demand CRM solutions are designed to empower organizations across every industry to deliver world-class customer and employee experiences, and achieve the highest levels of sales and service efficiency possible."

About Start Magazine

Top executives have come to rely on Start for sound technological advice coupled with solid coverage of the financial, political, and management. Since it's inception in 1997, Start has focused on reaching the C-level suite. Today, 85,000 top manufacturing executives—CEOs, presidents, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, COOs, vice presidents, and other executives—have come to rely on Start's keen editorial each month.

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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