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Cast Iron Systems Introduces Rapid Integration Solution for Salesforce.com's AppExchange

AppExchange customers can now complete integration projects in just days using Cast Iron's "no software" appliance-based approach to integration

San Francisco, CA — January 17, 2006 — Cast Iron Systems and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced the availability of the Cast Iron Systems Application Integration Appliance for salesforce.com's AppExchange. The Cast Iron Systems Application Integration Appliance for AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at www.appexchange.com, in conjunction with the Salesforce Winter '06 release. Integrated with Salesforce via the AppExchange on-demand platform, the Cast Iron Systems Integration Appliance connects enterprise systems and other on-demand applications to Salesforce in days, rather than weeks or months, by using a unique "no software" approach to Salesforce integration.

Most large Salesforce implementations involve the need to rapidly synchronize sales data-such as leads, accounts, opportunities and forecasts-with a variety of internal systems including ERP, CRM and other custom applications. The Cast Iron Systems Application Integration Appliance is a simple, purpose-built solution containing everything needed to deliver these integration projects within days. Just as Salesforce has simplified CRM, enterprises can now use this appliance to deliver their integration projects many times faster than with traditional software-based solutions.

"We're excited to offer such a simple solution for integrating Salesforce with other on-demand and enterprise applications," said Ram Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer at Cast Iron Systems. "AppExchange users can now complete integrations in a matter of days, making our integration appliance a fast path to real-time synchronization between Salesforce and SAP, Oracle, web service enabled applications and more."

With AppExchange, salesforce.com customers now have access to new applications that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to an entire business, letting them manage and share all of their company information on-demand. Using AppExchange, companies can easily add any number of new on-demand applications to their existing Salesforce deployments, extending their success and making the full power and creativity of the salesforce.com customer, partner and developer community available with just a click.

The Cast Iron Systems Application Integration Appliance for AppExchange is one of more than 150 application listings created by salesforce.com, its customers and partners that are now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application platform. AppExchange provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for Salesforce deployments, as well as enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. Launched today, AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into any salesforce.com account. AppExchange can be found at www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

About Cast Iron Systems

Our purpose-built integration appliance called the Cast Iron iA3000™ integrates business systems in days. It is a purpose built, enterprise-class solution that is easy to use, fast to deploy and simple to manage. The iA3000 is the fastest, simplest and least expensive way to solve application integration problems, enabling customers to complete application integration projects in days rather than months and reduce their total cost of ownership by as much as 82%.

Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems consists of a world class team of experienced integration professionals committed to solving IT's application integration challenges faster and for less cost than by using any other solution.

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 October 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 18,700 customers and approximately 351,000 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. 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 www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.