Salesforce vs SolarWinds

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

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a meaningful lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 35). The gap of 22 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 SolarWinds. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is ahead of SolarWinds. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Salesforce is slightly ahead of SolarWinds. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds is ahead of Salesforce.

Salesforce carries 68,892 GitHub stars across 417 public repos, with 75 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 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 Salesforce's footprint is roughly 62.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Salesforce is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. SolarWinds looks better where momentum 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.