On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:02, Troy Gaines <troygai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been a satisfied long-time user of SVN. > > I found the following article recently. I have used both and this appears > (Dimensions CM is slow from our experience) to be very skewed based on user > experience. Anyone else have a similar issue? > > http://www.serena.com/products/dimensions-cm/index.html > > Please let me know if this is not the correct user group.
That's not an "article", it's a sales brochure. I am not at all surprised that marketing materials by a CM product vendor cast their own products in a more favorable light than their competitors. You can find similar language in marketing materials published by vendors selling SVN solutions too. Statements like this: "In common global development conditions, tests have shown that it is 60 times faster than IBM Rational ClearCase and 3 times faster than Subversion." are really hard to use in a meaningful way as they don't say anything about *what* was tested or *how* the testing was conducted. Your own testing with your typical workloads, or even testing/comparisons done by an independent 3rd party with full details of what and how they tested, would be much more informative IMHO.
