On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> Mike Cepek wrote:
>> 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.
I ran into that problem when I was doing the case studies for my
book. I contacted several large Subversion installations, but none
of the people I contacted could convince the powers that be to allow
them to reply to my case study survey, even though I promised to
anonymize the names of any companies that requested it. It's just
one of those unfortunate, but unbreakable policies.
On the other hand, if someone (*cough*CollabNet*cough*) were to fund
a professional polling group to do a survey of the Subversion
landscape, then we might be able to get some real numbers, since a
trusted professional organization, backed by the closest thing to a
corporate face that Subversion has, might be enough to get companies
to -anonymously- contribute data about their installation sizes.
It would have to be a survey performed by professional pollsters,
though. A survey on the web page might produce interesting (and even
accurate) results, but it will never be enough to convince most big
corporate types.
-Bill
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Received on Fri Oct 20 16:01:02 2006