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Salesforce.com Added to KLD’s Domini 400 Social Index

Company awarded Index membership for its commitment to giving back to the community and well-rounded employee compensation policy

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – March 15, 2006 – Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the technology and market leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced that the company has been added to the Domini 400 Social Index (DS 400 Index) by KLD Indexes, a division of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. Salesforce.com has become a constituent of DS 400 Index because of its commitment to giving back to the community through encouragement of employee volunteerism, a generous and innovative charitable giving program, and strong support for hiring the disabled, in addition to a well-round employee compensation policy. Salesforce.com was added to DS 400 Index after the close of trading January 31, 2006 and joins Microsoft Corporation, Intel Corporation and Cisco Systems, Inc. as members.

KLD’s DS 400 Index is a float-adjusted market capitalization weighted common stock index modeled on the S&P 500 Index. The DS 400 Index is the first benchmark for equity portfolios subject to multiple social screens. It is a widely recognized benchmark for measuring the impact of social screening on financial returns and the performance of socially screened portfolios. KLD selects companies that have made positive social and environmental impact.

“We are honored to be added to KLD’s Domini 400 Social Index. Since our founding, we have integrated philanthropy and community support into our business model. We believe that young companies that wait for ‘some day’ to start giving are missing a huge opportunity both to serve their communities and to enrich the lives of their employees. We are proud to be recognized by KLD Indexes for our achievements in community giving,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO.

About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). The company’s Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. AppExchange, salesforce.com’s on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to build powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and integrate the Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs, and distribute and sell on-demand apps at www.appexchange.com. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

As of January 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 20,500 customers and approximately 399,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. 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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