Salesforce.com to cross 1-m subscriptions

BANGALORE, INDIA: Salesforce.com has announced that its service will surpass one million paying subscriptions this month.

Industry momentum and customer adoption of the Force.com Platform and Salesforce CRM application suite will make salesforce.com achieve the milestone.

The company is also experiencing rapid adoption of the developer preview of Visualforce as more than 3,400 developers already have created more than 5,800 custom interfaces with the new User-Interface-as-a-Service component of the Force.com platform.

“Our strategy of delivering both the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service and Salesforce core Software-as-a-Service applications has driven a remarkable shift in the industry over the last eight years,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.

“It took seven years to reach the first 500,000 paying subscribers and only another 16 months for the second 500,000.”