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Developer Edition is a free 'playground' environment for developers to experiment with the myriad Salesforce CRM and Force.com platform features. It's a great place to learn how Force.com technologies work, run through workbook exercises and other training materials, and begin to build applications. In a Developer Edition organization, you can write Apex code directly without worry about test coverage, because it's not a real production environment. Developer Edition organizations are also used by ISVs to build and publish applications to the AppExchange. But Developer Edition organizations only allow a few named user logins, as they cannot be used directly for running applications for commercial purposes.
Sandbox is an enterprise feature of the Force.com platform for developing customizations and code changes in isolation from production users and data. A Sandbox is a copy of a production organization and can be created at the click of a button, and refreshed/replaced with a fresh copy from production every 29 days. You cannot write Apex code directly in a production organization; instead you create a sandbox, write your code and tests, and deploy them to production when everything's working.
Sandbox is included with Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition, as well as Force.com Free Edition.
In terms of which one is right for you, it depends on whether you're an individual developer learning the platform, an ISV writing applications for others, or a direct customer of salesforce.com using Enterprise Edition, Unlimited Edition, or Free Force.com Edition to run parts of your business.
Jon
salesforce.com Product Manager
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Developer Edition : Developer Edition provides access to the Force.com platform and API. It allows developers to extend the Salesforce.com system, integrate with other applications, and develop new tools and applications. Developer Edition provides access to many of the features available with Enterprise Edition.
Sandbox : Salesforce.com gives you the ability to create multiple copies of your organization in separate environments for a variety of purposes, such as testing and training, without compromising the data and applications in your Salesforce.com production organization. These copies are called sandboxes and are nearly identical to your Salesforce.com production organization.
Sandboxes are completely isolated from your Salesforce.com production organization, so operations you perform in your sandboxes do not affect your Salesforce.com production organization, and vice-versa.
Developer Edition is a free 'playground' environment for developers to experiment with the myriad Salesforce CRM and Force.com platform features. It's a great place to learn how Force.com technologies work, run through workbook exercises and other training materials, and begin to build applications. In a Developer Edition organization, you can write Apex code directly without worry about test coverage, because it's not a real production environment. Developer Edition organizations are also used by ISVs to build and publish applications to the AppExchange. But Developer Edition organizations only allow a few named user logins, as they cannot be used directly for running applications for commercial purposes.
Sandbox is an enterprise feature of the Force.com platform for developing customizations and code changes in isolation from production users and data. A Sandbox is a copy of a production organization and can be created at the click of a button, and refreshed/replaced with a fresh copy from production every 29 days. You cannot write Apex code directly in a production organization; instead you create a sandbox, write your code and tests, and deploy them to production when everything's working.
Sandbox is included with Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition, as well as Force.com Free Edition.
In terms of which one is right for you, it depends on whether you're an individual developer learning the platform, an ISV writing applications for others, or a direct customer of salesforce.com using Enterprise Edition, Unlimited Edition, or Free Force.com Edition to run parts of your business.
Jon
salesforce.com Product Manager
Can you access a sandbox with a developer license, or do you have to have an enterprise seat to access the sandbox? I have a developer who doesn't need access to SF production, but will need access to the sandbox.
Your developer can sign up with the Force.com Free Edition which has sandbox and production orgs.