Agreed.
I understand the marketing aspect very well. It's sad companies are buying
into this, even the one I'm working for. :)
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 19:21:28 CET