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: