"One of the key reasons we chose Oracle and salesforce.com is because each company had the vision to ensure their solutions could easily work together with a wide variety of other platforms," said David Watson, vice president and CTO, Kaiser Permanente. "Together, Oracle and salesforce.com represent a combination that can't be beat. For us, it's the best of both the online and on premise worlds."

Enterprises such as Kaiser Permanente, Phoenix Technologies and Stratus Technologies rely on salesforce.com and Oracle to power their businesses with a complete suite of enterprise applications. As a provider of business-critical, on-demand CRM solutions, salesforce.com has chosen Oracle's open, secure, reliable and manageable technology infrastructure to successfully provide 24x7 on-demand services to its customers.

"While many companies talk about delivering an open, scalable software infrastructure for independent software vendors to use, Oracle has been delivering world class database technology and working with partners for nearly three decades," said Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com customers have confidence in our ability to deliver critical business applications, such as our new Summer '05 release, because of our decision to standardize on Oracle. We are proud to run our systems, and our company on the Oracle platform."

"Oracle is committed to providing our partners with world-class technology and services so they can serve our joint customers," said Charles Phillips, president, Oracle. "We look forward to a continued successful technology relationship with saleforce.com."

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About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM] is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). Through its award-winning salesforce.com family of products including Salesforce (http://www.salesforce.com) and Supportforce (http://www.supportforce.com), the company provides a comprehensive suite of CRM applications to help enterprises of all sizes, industries and geographies meet the complex challenge of sharing and managing information on-demand. Salesforce and Supportforce are built on the Sforce client/service integration platform and include the Customforce tool for complete on-demand customization. Sforce (http://www.sforce.com) and Customforce (http://www.customforce.com) allow customers and independent software vendors to customize and integrate salesforce.com's products, as well as build their own on-demand enterprise applications. As of April 30, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 15,500 customers and approximately 267,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom 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 our services 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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