Are these your Borland Pain Points? Did I miss any?
Moving code from one release to the next
Moving client specific one-offs from one release to the next
Getting clean check outs
Updating local working copies in a timely manner (performance)
Performance, Performance, Performance
IDE integration
Licensing
Reporting
Security (allowing people to delete their own files)
Stability
Integration w/ other products
Having an instable trunk
Reverting changes hard
Branching/merging hard
No tooling choices
Bugs
Poorly designed GUI
Lack of Support
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Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 12:52 PM
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org; Greg Thomas
Subject: RE: Subversion vs. StarTeam
I bet its not free. Once you get hooked the price goes way up. We
started out much cheaper. Borland desupports versions and jacks the
support cost up according to how hooked they think you are. Ours
support increased by a factor of about 4 one year.
> After much hang-wringing by the local PHBs at work, I finally
> persuaded them to go for Subversion as a SCM solution.
>
> Then, someone did a deal with Borland that gave us access to StarTeam
> for free.
>
> So, the question I'm now being asked is - why Subversion and not
> StarTeam, given that their purchase cost (to us, at least) is the
> same.
>
> Has anyone done a comparison of the two - does anyone have any
> comments, good or bad, about StarTeam?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
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