Production Environments:

Salesforce Environments that have active paying users accessing business critical data are known as Production Environments. It stores the live data that is actively used to run the business.

Custom Force.com application can be developed for:

• Own production use
• Existing salesforce.com customers
• Any business or organization in the world

Note:

• Users or Developers can easily build a custom object, field or validation rule directly to their production environment without the need of a development or test environment. However some features like Apex code can only be created in development environments.
• Salesforce always recommends that one should use a development environment when building a Force.com app.

Let’s head on to Development Environments.