To: Silly Rabbit who wrote (46046 ) 1/22/1999 11:56:00 AM From: FatMatty Respond to of 119973
SBAS moving nicely again this AM. Read this from Yahoo board on product merits/competition. BTW - there will be releases later this month and in Feb. on LARGE contract wins. This company makes web development tools. You heard it here first. Also see this PR:biz.yahoo.com StarTeam competition, reply to ObeTimeTwo by: kilroy001 1121 of 1134 Competetion for StarTeam includes PVCS (a joke of a product), Source Safe(simple version control only), Dimensions (somewhat impressive, but hard to administer), Perforce (small player), Continuous(I don't know much about it). The biggest competitor is probably ClearCase. ClearCase is very popular with big corporations, but the product in all honesty sucks. EXTREMELY difficult to administer, very poor performance... StarTeam has a huge advantage because it so easy to administer and the performance is excellent. It has the best architecture that I'm aware of. Since it is a new product, it doesn't have all the legacy issues and they were able to make the product easily extendable (via COM/Java). ClearCase is an old architecture that was aquired via aquisition. Rational(the co. that makes ClearCase) is attempting to integrate all their products with the vision of having a design to implementation impact and linkage. The problem with this is all their products don't integrate together very well - it's half assed. That's what happens when you buy a bunch of disperate co's and try to make all their products work together. I work for a major telecomm and am forced to use ClearCase for company wide stuff. My group uses StarTeam for our project because it was too hard to update the ClearCase projects when we needed to obsolete files, rename them, change directory structures, branch, etc. That and ClearCase crashes all the time on Win NT. StarTeam NEVER crashes. ClearCase also slows down your machine since it has this elaborate file system. Just my opinion.