On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 16:34, James Greene <jgreene_at_collab.net> wrote:
> 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
So what isn't painful? :)
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> 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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