9.5.07

Salesforce.com Announces First-Ever Developer Conference

7 May 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the first-ever Salesforce Developer Conference, designed to foster the next generation of on-demand applications and businesses. Attendees will hear from and network with industry visionaries, such as Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Ventures, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com, and Parker Harris, co-founder and EVP Technology, salesforce.com. The Salesforce Developer Conference will be held May 21, 2007 at the Santa Clara Marriott.

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The conference will provide developers the opportunity to get hands-on with the Salesforce Platform and the Apex programming language, as well as the opportunity to meet with salesforce.com's platform R&D and AppExchange teams. Attendees will be able to attend tracks and sessions to learn how to build a global business with on-demand applications. Tracks at the Salesforce Developer Conference will include:
-- Salesforce Platform: Learn directly from salesforce.com technology experts as they discuss how to build robust on-demand apps on the Salesforce Platform
-- Enterprise Mashups: Learn to extend on-demand applications by leveraging leading Web Services APIs
-- On-Demand Startups: Go from idea to cash using the Salesforce Platform and the AppExchange

For more information on sessions, speakers and tracks, or to register, please visit: http://www.salesforce.com/campaigns/developerconference/.
An audio webcast of Mr. Benioff's keynote will be available on salesforce.com's website at http://www.salesforce.com/investor.

Create and Build On Demand with the Salesforce Developer Network
Comprehensive developer resources to build on the Salesforce Platform are available at a new Wiki-based developer site, the Salesforce Developer Network, at http://developer.salesforce.com. The Salesforce Developer Network provides the community, tools and resources to let developers use the Apex programming language to build new applications for the AppExchange. Now any developer in the world -- with access to just a Web browser and Internet connection -- can harness the power of the world's most popular multi-tenant platform to create new applications and mashups from scratch. With toolkits and resources for most popular development languages, including AJAX, Flex, Java, .NET and PHP, developers can also combine those applications with other Web services to create new business mashups, allowing developers, ISVs and IT organizations to easily leverage The Business Web in their projects and offerings.

Developers interested in using the toolkits and the Salesforce Platform can sign up for a free Developer Edition at http://developer.salesforce.com.

About salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM applications allows customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. The Salesforce Platform enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise. All new components and applications built on the Salesforce Platform can be easily shared, exchanged and installed via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

As of January 31, 2007, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 29,800 customers and approximately 646,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis Budget Group, Inc, Dow Jones Newswires, Polycom 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.

Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of salesforce.com, and AppExchange, The Business Web, IdeaExchange and Successforce are trademarks of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE salesforce.com, Inc.05/07/2007/CONTACT: David Havlek, Investor Relations, +1-415-536-2171,dhavlek@salesforce.com, or Gordon Evans, Public Relations, +1-415-536-7608,gevans@salesforce.com, for Salesforce.comWeb site: http://www.salesforce.com(CRM)

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding salesforce.com's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.

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