Adobe, Inc. vs Salesforce

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #48) holds a narrow lead over Salesforce (rank #82) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 57). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Salesforce. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Salesforce is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Salesforce.

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Salesforce looks better where education is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.