Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff to Speak at Oracle OpenWorld

Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell to join Benioff as special guest during executive sponsor session



SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, will speak at an Executive Sponsor Session at Oracle OpenWorld on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:00 pm PDT. Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell, will be a special guest during Mr. Benioff's presentation, which will be located at the Novellus Theater in the Yerba Buena Arts Center, next to Moscone North.

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Salesforce.com will be showcasing its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Custom Cloud offerings at the conference, and will demonstrate how customers are generating business success with Oracle and Salesforce CRM - the best of both worlds. Salesforce.com is a Gold Sponsor of Oracle OpenWorld and will be in booth 3119 during the show, held October 11-15, 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

To register for Oracle OpenWorld, please go to http://www.oracle.com/openworld. You must be registered to attend the Executive Sponsor Session.

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/) enables 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, multi-tenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.

As of July 31, 2009, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 63,200 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, 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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