(September 23, 2003) - Salesforce.com is joining the BEA Controls and Extensibility Program as a founding member, and is developing an sforce-enhanced version of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1. Together, salesforce.com and BEA plan to deliver a co-branded bundled solution that gives developers pre-integrated access to all the capabilities in BEA WebLogic Workshop and the sforce client/service application platform. BEA WebLogic Workshop for sforce will help enable developers to integrate and distribute essential customer information throughout existing systems and enterprise infrastructure at a fraction of the time and expense usually incurred.

With this offering, developers have access to the unique combination of BEA’s application development, portal, and integration technologies and sforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) infrastructure and Web service capabilities. Developers will receive free access to both fully featured development versions of BEA WebLogic Workshop and the salesforce.com Developer Edition at www.sforce.com, allowing the creation of composite applications without any upfront costs. Enterprises will pay only for deployment of their solutions, eliminating much of the risk associated with traditional packaged enterprise software extension.

As the platform on which salesforce.com S3 is built, sforce allows enterprises and solution developers to customize, integrate and extend salesforce.com and create new on-demand business applications. Launched in June 2003 in conjunction with BEA, Borland, Microsoft, and Sun, sforce lets developers extend their salesforce.com implementations using the tools they know and love to rapidly build solutions with lower cost and complexity than software-only alternatives. Already more than 50 solution providers, 100 enterprises and 800 developers are using sforce to extend salesforce.com and build new applications.