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Re: Testimonials++

From: Mark <mark_at_mitsein.net>
Date: 2006-10-20 01:43:54 CEST

How about http://opensource.motorola.com? That is SFEE which uses
SVN. It currently shows 1181 registered users.

On 10/19/06, Lieven Govaerts <svnlgo@mobsol.be> wrote:
> Mike Cepek wrote:
> > The current SVN testimonials page is nice, but it doesn't give any sense
> > at all to the NUMBER of developers using Subversion at various sites.
> >
> > While evaluating various source control products for use by my employer,
> > I had a sales person for a commercial SCM product make this statement
> > recently (copied verbatim):
> >
> > "In regards to 100 devs using SVN, there is no such data
> > that I have ever seen nor that any other customer, partner
> > or consulting firm could find. In a respect, you guys are
> > blazing the trail. All the shops I have dealt with have
> > migrated off once they get to about 15-20 users [...]"
> >
> LOL, which company did that guy represent? With great tools like
> Subversion, TortoiseSVN and Subclipse freely available those sales guys
> from commercial SCM's are right to get very nervous ;)
> > Try to push for Subversion after Management has heard that... :-(
> >
> > Now I'm positive that there are many corporate sites with MANY more
> > developers per SVN server than that. My request is to beef up the
> > Testimonials page with some information about real companies* using
> > Subversion to build real products. Any brave souls willing to put their
> > company name out there? (ask first where necessary, offer void where
> > prohibited)
> The problem is that larger companies typically don't want one of their
> IT guys put internal information on some website, and that's typically a
> global policy for which they don't accept any exceptions.
>
> Without telling you the name of that customer, I've just finished a
> migration project to Subversion for approximately 100 applications with
> some 400 developers working on them. The technologies used in this
> applications include Java/J2EE, VB6, .NET, Oracle (forms, sql, ...),
> Business Objects etc. Our setup of Subversion is a mix of Linux on the
> server and Windows on the client, with integration to Active Directory
> for authorization.
> The developers previously used PVCS so they were mostly not used to the
> Copy-Modify-Merge model of Subversion. After basic training they all
> switched without much of a problem. In fact, their evaluation of our
> Subversion solution was generally very positive.
>
> Now there definitely are more examples of large installations of
> Subversion, yesterday I heard of a company with 1000+ developers on
> Subversion and there definitely are more examples of that.
>
> Your management will probably also require a 2nd/3rd-line support
> contract for Subversion, so you might want to contact a commercial
> company offering Subversion support. I'm sure they can give you better
> case studies.
>
> hth,
>
> Lieven.
>
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-- 
Mark
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