Adobe, Inc. vs SolarWinds

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and SolarWinds both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a meaningful lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 35). The gap of 26 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 57.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. SolarWinds makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.