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Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff named an Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year 2007 national winner

~ Benioff honored for leading salesforce.com’s innovation and success and his commitment to redefining corporate philanthropy ~

December 03, 2007

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, has announced that Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of the company, has been named a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for his leadership and innovation in Technology. Benioff was selected from approximately 400 regional award recipients by a panel of independent judges for his role in transforming the way companies purchase, deploy and use business applications, and for salesforce.com’s ongoing commitment to assisting nonprofit organisations through the Salesforce.com Foundation. Along with the award bestowed to Benioff, Ernst & Young remarked, “the word ‘pioneer’ hardly begins to describe Marc Benioff. He utilised the online architecture popularised by consumer Internet companies to deliver an entirely new way to deliver the software applications that companies use to manage their businesses.” Ernst & Young also recognised Benioff’s role in developing an innovative philanthropy model by committing 1% of Salesforce.com’s equity, 1% percent of employee work time, and 1% of its product to nonprofit organizations around the world through the Salesforce.com Foundation. The Ernst & Young 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year Award is the latest in a series of accolades given to Marc Benioff for his outstanding vision and accomplishments. Other recent honors include eWeek’s 2007 Top 100 Most Influential People in IT; Silicon.com’s Top 50 Agenda Setters for 2007; and being named a CRM Magazine 2007 Influential Leader. Now in its 21st year, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards recognise leaders and visionaries who demonstrate innovation, financial success and personal commitment as they create and build world-class businesses. For more information on the Ernst & Young 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, visit http://www.ey.com/global/content.nsf/US/SGM_EOY_2007_National_Winners.

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“During the last eight years we have worked tirelessly to bring the power of on-demand business services to our customers, and to use our successes to give back to our community,” said Benioff. “I’m honored to be chosen as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and to be recognised for the work that is our daily passion at salesforce.com.”

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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. Force.com, the world's first on-demand 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. Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, 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 October 31, 2007, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 38,100 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/uk

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