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Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO to Speak at Ninth Annual Nikkei Global Management Forum in Tokyo

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TOKYO (Map) - TOKYO, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced that Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, will present at the Nikkei Global Management Forum (NGMF) on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 3:40 p.m. (JST), at the Tokyo Prince Park Tower Hotel. More than 500 senior executives are expected to attend what is the most highly rated business conference in Japan.

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Benioff will be speaking alongside the CEOs of the world's leading companies including Paul Otellini, President and CEO, Intel Corp;

Glenn Tilton, CEO UAL Corp. and United Airlines; Jeffery Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, Inc.; Tsuneji Uchida, President and COO, Canon Inc.; Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President and CEO, Nokia Corp.; Shigetaka Komori, President and CEO FUJIFILM Holdings Corp.; Shoei Utsuda, President and CEO Mitsui Co, Ltd.; Gerard Kleisterlee, President and CEO, Royal Philips Electronics; and Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase and Co., among others.

The theme of the NGMF 2007 is "Corporate Management Challenges New Targets." In addition to presenting how Software-as-a-Service enables innovation and business success for companies of all sizes, Benioff will take part in a 'fireside chat' with senior staff writer Waichi Sekiguchi from the The Nikkei in the final conference session entitled, "Innovation: The Key to New Markets."

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. 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 July 31, 2007, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 35,300 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.

Copyright (c) 2007 salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved. Salesforce.com and the "no software" logo are registered trademarks of salesforce.com, inc., and salesforce.com owns other registered and unregistered trademarks. Other names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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