Salesforce.com Appoints Craig Conway to Board Of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 6, 2005 — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management, today announced the appointment of Craig Conway to the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Conway has been added to the class of directors whose term will expire at the 2008 Annual Meeting.

"We are delighted that Craig is joining the board," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. "Craig is a seasoned executive who brings a wealth of industry and business knowledge that will benefit salesforce.com as we continue to redefine the CRM marketplace with the industry's only complete on-demand platform. Craig's strong operational credentials will be valuable a contribution to our company and we look forward to his guidance and counsel."

The salesforce.com board voted to add Mr. Conway to the board, bringing board membership to seven members, and bringing the number of independent directors on the board to six.

About Craig Conway

Mr. Craig Conway has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Managers by BusinessWeek magazine, Ten Most Influential People in High Technology by Computer Business Review, and Fifty Most Powerful People in Networking by NetworkWorld magazine.

As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Conway has led several technology companies to success including most recently PeopleSoft. Under his leadership PeopleSoft became the second largest provider of enterprise business software with more than 12,000 customers in 150 countries. Fortune magazine named PeopleSoft the Second Most Admired Company in America in 2002.

Previously, Mr. Conway has served as President and CEO of TGV Software and One Touch Systems. He has also held executive management positions at a variety of leading technology companies including Executive Vice President at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Conway is a graduate of the State University of New York at Brockport where he received degrees in mathematics and computer science. He has been married for 25 years and has two children.

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 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.
    
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