[ On Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 12:42:57 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Converting ClearCase to CVS > > You get what you pay for. In my opinion, the quality of implementation > of ClearCase is much more robust than CVS, and Rational supports it much > better anyone supports CVS.
Have you ever paid anyone to support CVS with the same amount of money you have pay for licensing _and_ support of ClearCase? I'll bet you would get better support for CVS than you could ever get for ClearCase. In terms of support there are no advantages to being one of the many ClearCase users that are not also advantages of being one of the many CVS users. While Rational may have more long-term dollars to put into research and development than has been or ever will be put into CVS research and development, that's not necessarily an advantage for ClearCase either. Free software does not have to fight for market share by adding useless, and/or confusing, and/or buggy features. Even truly mass-market "boxed" software doesn't necessarily have any advantage over free software, provided that the user is willing to pay the same much in support fees as they would pay for the commercial version (and I can assure you that ClearCase is very far from ever being considered a "mass-market" product of any kind! :-). -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs