Announcing Cloudstock: The Woodstock for Cloud Developers at Dreamforce 2010

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced Cloudstock: the Woodstock for cloud developers at Dreamforce 2010. For the first time ever, the technical evangelists and developer communities of the leading cloud technology providers will be together under one roof in a massive meetup designed to further the level of innovative application development happening in the cloud.

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• Held Monday, Dec. 6 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, the free event will feature 60+ sessions, demos, networking and a Cloudstock Hackathon, which will be sponsored by ProgrammableWeb.
• Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Box.net, eBay, Engine Yard, Google, Heroku, 10gen/MongoDB, OnLive, PayPal, ProgrammableWeb, salesforce.com, SimpleGeo, Twilio, VMware, and Yahoo! Developer Network are among the top cloud computing technology providers and developer communities that are participating.
• Registration for the Cloudstock Developer conference has reached capacity and is closed.
• Follow Cloudstock on Twitter: www.twitter.com/cloudstockevent
• Attendees registered for Cloudstock are also invited to use their passes for free access to the keynotes and expo of Dreamforce 2010, salesforce.com's 8th annual user and developer conference, which is collocated at Moscone convention center.
• Developers interested in learning more about building apps on the Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform can join developer.force.com for a comprehensive set of tools and resources to get started building apps in the cloud.

Comments on the News:

• "The developer technologies and APIs from the companies participating in Cloudstock are leading the industry's next wave of innovation," said John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb. "These cloud computing pioneers are inspiring and enabling developers to create a new generation of apps that span multiple cloud services."
• "Developers increasingly want to build the next generation of cloud, mobile, and social apps using cloud platforms," said George Hu, executive vice president, platform, marketing and alliances, salesforce.com.  "This cloud computing 'Woodstock' will give developers a means to collaborate with one another, unleash their creativity, and learn more about Force.com, Amazon Web Services, Google AppEngine, and a wide range of other leading cloud technologies, all in one place."
• "TechCrunch is pleased to be a media sponsor of Cloudstock," said Heather Harde, CEO, TechCrunch. "It's great to see salesforce.com host an open forum for cloud-based innovation and to embrace community participation through its hackathon."

Dreamforce 2010: Salesforce.com's 8th Annual User & Developer Conference

More than 20,000 attendees are expected at the industry's largest cloud computing event, Dreamforce 2010, which is focused on inspiring customer, partner and developer success with the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce Chatter and the Force.com platform. Attendees will learn how the next generation of cloud computing can help their businesses take off through collaboration, inspiration and networking with cloud leaders. Additionally, attendees will meet with salesforce.com product teams, hear from more than 700 expert users at leading customer and partner companies, get training with the more than 30 hands-on-labs and learn best practices and strategies for generating success with cloud computing. Dreamforce '10 will be held Dec. 6 - 9, 2010 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Registration is live at http://www.dreamforce.com.

About salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, the company's platform and CRM applications (http://www.salesforce.com/crm) have revolutionized the way companies collaborate and communicate with their customers, including:

• The Sales Cloud, for sales force automation and contact management
• The Service Cloud, for customer service and support solutions
• Chatter, for social collaboration
• The Force.com platform, for custom application development
• The AppExchange, the world's leading marketplace for enterprise cloud computing applications

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