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Salesforce.com has launched an eBay style online marketplace called AppExchange for the buying and selling of applications between businesses.

AppExchange was created to allow Salesforce customers and third-party developers to exchange applications with each other.

The site features 8 different application categories, each with their own subcategories for the user to choose from, as well as application reviews, and a list of the most popular applications. Reuters writes:

Salesforce Founder and Chief Executive Marc Benioff introduced its AppExchange service that lets customers build and share software with other Salesforce users at a company user conference in San Francisco.

For example, Salesforce.com users could potentially twin the application with Google Maps to allow salespeople to pinpoint the locations of prospects.

Customers are able to test the applications featured at AppExchange before committing to them. All of them will run in the customer's Salesforce.com platform.

Chris is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest ebusiness news.