Salesforce is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that aims to help businesses manage their customer relationships. It’s a popular customer relationship management (CRM) platform.
Sales Cloud is Salesforce’s largest product, designed for sales teams to manage leads, opportunities, and customer relationships.
In 2023 Salesforce moved 200,000 systems (its entire software estate) to Red Hat. They previously used CentOS Linux 7. The company does develop Salesforce CLI, a command line interface that simplifies development and build automation when working with your Salesforce org. While this is cross-platform open source software (and runs under Linux), the vast majority of their products are published under a proprietary license. From a Linux perspective, their biggest products are the proprietary Tableau and Slack.
What if you are looking to move away from proprietary software. In this series we showcase open source alternatives to products from Salesforce.
This is a new series. Bear with us as we compile additional roundups.
All articles in this series:
| Alternatives to Salesforce's Products | |
|---|---|
 | Tableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems |
 | Quip is a collaborative productivity software package. It allows groups of people to create and edit documents and spreadsheets as a group |