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Tate Needham
Monday, August 14, 2006
This is now becoming an anuual event. We did a quick customer survey a couple of weeks ago, and not breaking tradition, we again asked what Version Control Systems people are using. It's a very important question for us because it's such an integral part of the build process. If FinalBuilder doesn't natively support the VCS you use, then it's possible, but harder, to use FinalBuilder to do your builds.
Here's the graph:
So, out of all that the only VCS's we currently don't have native support for are MKS SourceIntegrity, Code Coop, Continuus, and Accurev. We're currently in the process of adding MKS SourceIntegrity and Accurev actions.
What's interesting about this graph is that it's showing some trends over the past year and a bit. Microsoft TeamSystem is really jumping in popularity, as is Subversion. The popularity of SourceSafe is dropping off, but not as fast as I would have thought.
It's suprising to see less usage of JediVCS/FreeVCS - I wonder what these people are using now? And it's also good to see that the percentage of people using no version control system has halved since last year.
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11 comment(s) so far...
Re: Version Control Systems... again.
"Microsoft TeamSystem is really jumping in popularity"
It looks as though SourceSafe has dropped by the same amount that TeamSystem has increased. Are teams just making a direct transfer between the two?
By Chi on
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
"It looks as though SourceSafe has dropped by the same amount that TeamSystem has increased. Are teams just making a direct transfer between the two?"
Interesting question - which I don't know the answer to and suspect no-body does :) TeamSystem is very expensive, so would seem strange that people using VSS, which is essentially free, would be moving to quite an expensive VCS.
By Tate on
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
Interestingly enough, with the changing MSDN licensing structure, VSS is no longer as "free" as it used to be. VSS is now bundled with the premium version of MSDN as opposed to the professional version. This adds about $1500 to the cost of an MSDN license if you were previously using professional. For more details see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/subscriptions/chart/
Thomas Beck
thomas@beckshome.com
www.beckshome.com
By Thomas Beck on
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
Approx how many people are included in this survey?
By Tim on
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
> TeamSystem is very expensive, so would seem strange that
> people using VSS, which is essentially free, would be moving
> to quite an expensive VCS.
If it's "the one that comes in the Microsoft box", the price is often invisible on corporate radar.
By AJ Finch on
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
"Approx how many people are included in this survey?"
We got just under 400 replies for this question.
By Tate on
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
It would be nice if you also posted the raw data along with the graph. By themselves without the supporting numbers, the graphs themselves could be misleading. Please consider it.
Thanks Thomas
By Whats your sample size? on
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
What we're mainly trying to do here is track what version control systems used by what percentage of our customers. And we use the data to make sure we have a good coverage. I blogged about it just for general interest - I'm not trying to prove anything here! :) It's just interesting to watch the changes over time especially when newcommers like TeamSystem appear out of nowhere and get used by a large percentage of people in quite a short period of time.
By Tate on
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
At my last job we used AccuRev with Finalbuilder. Worked fine without any special integration.
/Tomas
By Tomas on
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
MKS to VSS has anyone converted data from MKS to Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe
By Harry on
Thursday, November 02, 2006
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Re: Version Control Systems... again.
Dont switch to Sourcesafe.. its horrible.. do a google search on it, you will see there is tons of problems. Here is some of them: http://www.sharpdeveloper.net/content/category/7.aspx
By Sameer on
Friday, July 13, 2007
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