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Enterprise Applications: Salesforce.com Service Turns 10

By Debra Donston on 2009-03-19


Ten years ago March 16, Salesforce.com started its life in a small apartment in San Francisco. The hosted CRM service—which would become a milestone proof point for software as a service—has grown to include the Apex development language, Visualforce, the AppExchange platform and the Force.com “platform as a service.” The following screen shots illustrate the service’s evolution through the last decade.

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1999 account view

2000 opportunities view

2001 opportunities view

Google Docs integration

AppExchange home page launch in 2006

Cathedral Partners home page powered by Force.com Sites

Claims processing app built with Visualforce

Google AdWords integration

Google Maps mashup

Salesforce UI with Visualforce editor open

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