Windows IT Pro Readers Rate Salesforce the Number One CRM Business Application

Salesforce.com's solution wins top CRM solution award for second year in a row

SAN FRANCISCO — October 2, 2006 — Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced that it has received the Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Award for Business Applications. Windows IT Pro noted that the Salesforce suite was ranked first for CRM solution for the second consecutive year, commenting that Salesforce "beat the competition by a wide margin" because it is "easy to deploy and use" and "doesn't require an expensive upfront software purchase." The awards were published in the September 2006 edition of Window's IT Pro.

"To be recognized by the readers of Windows IT Pro, who understand the complexities of deploying and managing business applications, is a great testament to the significant advantages that Salesforce on-demand solutions provide," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO at salesforce.com. "This accolade echoes the feedback we hear regularly from new customers when they see first-hand how Salesforce can transform and improve their business."

Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Awards were developed in 2002 as a way to let readers evaluate and recommend the best technology products in the industry. This year readers chose Salesforce from nearly 750 products that were nominated in 12 major technology categories.

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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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