Dropbox vs Salesforce

Dropbox 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.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over Dropbox (rank #257) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 47). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Dropbox carries 61,045 GitHub stars across 247 public repos, with 29 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Dropbox is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. 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.