On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:02, Troy Gaines <troygaines_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been a satisfied long-time user of SVN.
>
> I found the following article recently. I have used both and this appears
> (Dimensions CM is slow from our experience) to be very skewed based on user
> experience. Anyone else have a similar issue?
>
> http://www.serena.com/products/dimensions-cm/index.html
>
> Please let me know if this is not the correct user group.
That's not an "article", it's a sales brochure. I am not at all
surprised that marketing materials by a CM product vendor cast their
own products in a more favorable light than their competitors. You can
find similar language in marketing materials published by vendors
selling SVN solutions too.
Statements like this:
"In common global development conditions, tests have shown that it is
60 times faster than IBM Rational ClearCase and 3 times faster than
Subversion."
are really hard to use in a meaningful way as they don't say anything
about *what* was tested or *how* the testing was conducted.
Your own testing with your typical workloads, or even
testing/comparisons done by an independent 3rd party with full details
of what and how they tested, would be much more informative IMHO.
Received on 2011-12-14 18:48:13 CET