cutems93 <ms2...@cornell.edu> writes: > Thank you everyone for such helpful responses! Actually, I have one more > question. Does anybody have experience with closed source version control > software? If so, why did you buy it instead of downloading open source > software? Does closed source vcs have some benefits over open source in some > part?
I have some experience with ClearCase. I don't know why anyone would buy it since it's bloated and slow and hard to use and likes to take over your computer. I was very happy to dump it when my team was allowed to use whatever we wanted but then we were not doing software either. ClearCase is also admin heavy for the above reasons. I guess big businesses buy things like that because other big businesses buy things like that. Presumably they keep it because it's cheaper to pay maintenance than move all source to some other system. Now granted, Linux development went to commercial Bitkeeper for a while since Linus Torvalds found it superior to CVS sometime over a decade ago. When the agreement ended, Torvalds himself developed Git to be what he needs. Other projects sprang up around the same time to get that job, this means at least Mercurial if Wikipedia is to be believed. Oh, as far as I know, commercial software vendors always ban their customers from publishing any kinds of benchmarks or other comparisons so it's unlikely you can find anything concrete for your commercial vs. free choice. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
