Salesforce.com and Google expand global strategic alliance

Salesforce.com and Google expanded their global strategic alliance to make it
easy for companies of all sizes to run their business with Salesforce for Google
Apps. The combination of the Google Apps suite of productivity applications and
the Salesforce suite of customer relationship management (CRM) applications
enables businesses to effectively communicate and collaborate without any
hardware or software to download, install or maintain. Salesforce for Google
Apps also leverages the Force.com Platform and Google's open APIs, opening up
even more development opportunities for developers and partners.

“Google and Salesforce.com always had similar models and philosophies about
delivering innovations made possible by the Internet,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO,
Google. “Salesforce.com was a pioneer in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and a year
ago we joined them in this mission to bring the benefits of cloud computing to
businesses of all types. Together, we are making more applications and services
available online so customers can focus on building their core business rather
than the applications that support it,” he added.

“Salesforce.com is thrilled to be offering Google Apps integrated with our
Salesforce applications and Force.com Platform-as-a-Service to the millions of
businesses looking to manage their entire office in the cloud,” said Marc
Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com.

Salesforce.com and Google — Cloud Computing for the Enterprise.

Both Salesforce.com and Google have altered the software landscape by
delivering SaaS applications, for CRM and productivity respectively, over the
Internet. Today, this shift in the technology industry is being referred to as
cloud computing, and Salesforce.com and Google are well poised to deliver it to
the enterprise. In June 2007, Salesforce.com and Google launched Salesforce
Group Edition featuring Google AdWords.