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Salesforce.com turns 10 Monday and in the last decade it has cemented its standing as a leading enterprise software vendor and leader of the software as a service and cloud computing charge. However, the next 10 years may be much more interesting.

Salesforce.com, officially launched in a San Francisco apartment March 16, 1999, finds itself at an inflection point. The company is posting solid financial results, saw fourth-quarter sales jump 34 percent from a year ago and continues to poach customers who are sick of high maintenance costs. And the company is the first of its ilk to hit the $1 billion revenue mark. gainesville sun

The big question: Where does the company go from here? It has developed Force.com, a platform for on-demand applications and a marketplace for software, but is largely a software-as-a-service (SaaS), customer relationship management software firm (its ticker is "CRM"). Salesforce.com is increasingly targeting large enterprises--the playground of Oracle and SAP, two companies with a lot more sales resources. Here's a look at my five top unresolved issues for Salesforce.com in the years ahead: