Benefits of using the Salesforce developer account
There are certain benefits of using the Salesforce developer account:
- Salesforce provides it free of cost to developers as a playground for their work
- A developer account can never expire
- You can experiment with certain development activities
- You can share your application with peers by creating packages
- The developer account comes with a number of preinstalled applications such as sales, call center, marketing, and ideas
- Updates are automatically installed in your developer account; these updates include:
- Salesforce customer portal
- Two Salesforce CRM licenses
- Two Salesforce mobile licenses
- Three Salesforce platform licenses
- Five Salesforce partner licenses
- 10 Salesforce customer portal manager licenses
The following screenshot shows the license details of the developer organization:
