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Global spending on cloud computing services, which includes SaaS, has reached about how much per year, according to IDC?

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FY2009 (about $1.077 billion)

Salesforce first exceeded $1 billion in annual revenue in which fiscal year?

It took a decade of growth after its 1999 founding for Salesforce to cross the billion-dollar mark.

Source: Wikipedia, Salesforce (2009) en.wikipedia.org

about $41.5 billion

By fiscal year 2026, Salesforce's annual revenue had grown to about how much?

Salesforce grew into the world's largest enterprise applications software company by revenue and market value.

Source: Wikipedia, Salesforce en.wikipedia.org

about $600 billion

Gartner projected worldwide public cloud end-user spending would reach about how much by 2023?

That projection reflected the rapid shift of business software and computing budgets toward the cloud.

Source: Wikipedia, Cloud computing (2023) en.wikipedia.org

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