Salesforce.com is the First Software-as-a-Service Company Placed on the S&P 500 Index

Salesforce.com will join Apple, Google and Amazon.com on the most widely watched index of large-cap US stocks

SAN FRANCISCO - September 15, 2008 - Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that Standard & Poor's has selected salesforce.com as the first Software-as-a-Service company to be placed on its S&P 500 index.

"The decision to add salesforce.com to the S&P 500 is a clear sign that the cloud computing has arrived," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO at salesforce.com. "Every day, more than 47,000 customers rely on salesforce.com to help run their businesses.  Now that incredible record of success in cloud computing has a new home-- the S&P 500."

More than 47,700 customers and 1,100,000 subscribers globally are now standardizing on Salesforce CRM and the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service to run their businesses.

About Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service.  The company’s Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud.  Based on salesforce.com’s real-time, multitenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing. 

As of January 31st , 2010, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 72, 500 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, 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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