On 06/14/2013 10:24 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-06-14, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
All that being said, it is, as Anssi points out, a horrible, bloated,
overpriced, complicated mess which requires teams of specially
trained ClearCase admins to run. In other words, it's exactly the
sort of thing big, stupid, Fortune-500 companies buy because the IBM
salesperson plays golf with the CIO.
Years ago, I worked at one largish company where a couple of the
embedded development projects used ClearCase. The rest of us used CVS
or RCS or some other cheap commercial systems. Judging by those
results, ClearCase requires a full-time administrator for every 10 or
so users. The other systems seemed to require almost no regular
administration, and what was required was handled by the developers
themselves (mayby a couple hours per month). The cost of ClearCase
was also sky-high.
if I remember rightly, it was about two-thousand dollars per seat. And
the people I saw using it were using XCOPY to copy the stuff they needed
onto their local drives, then disabling the ClearCase service so they
could get some real work done. Compiles were about 10x slower with the
service active.
Now that was on Windows NT, when Clearcase was first porting from Unix.
So perhaps things have improved.
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