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2004/2/11 [Computer/SW/RevisionControl] UID:12215 Activity:high
2/10    Is clearcase much superior over CVS? I've never used clearcase
        before, only cvs and sourcesafe. I need it for binary files
        only. Does the commercial product offer compelling value?
        Thanks, --williamc
        \_ Clearcase is really ment for the thousand person development
           team with multiple concurrent branches of development on
           several architectures, etc. It works pretty well if you can
           throw lots of big iron at it and you have an army of
           sysadmins to keep it happy.
           There are certains things I liked about it (versioned
           objects, views) but if you are a 1-50 person group CC is
           overkill.
           \_ if you need an army of sysadmins to keep a single clearcase
              system happy you need new sysadmins.  --sysadmin
                \_ not neccesarily an army of sysadmins, but for a decent size
                   company with a few different vobs and plenty of views, you
                   will eventually need a build engineer as well and probably
                   a toolsmith (if not the same guy) just to keep clearcase
                   managable and happy and to keep the engineers from doing
                   very destructive things.
                \_ While I suppose that a single system running
                   running the clearcase server might be enough
                   for a small shop, ever place I've seen it
                   each site had several clustered systems
                   running the vobs and doing replication and
                   such.
                   \_ ok, 2 sysadmins and a 3rd because someone will quit or
                      be sick sometimes.
        \_ For a smaller project you might want to look at perforce instead of
           clearcase.  It gives you changelists, views, good branching support,
           and a decent ui as well as powerful command line tools.  Not to
           mention it is pretty damn cheap.
           \_ yes... it's better than cvs, and 20x better than vss
           \_ $750 per for 1-20 licenses is cheap?  ok, cheaper than $100k
              for a dc or gazillion for magma.  but then cvs is free and
              works well enough for most stuff.
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