Bear in mind
that I was responsible
to introduce a new software configuration management system at the former business unit Business Integrations of the company
Danet GmbH
in 2001.
I could convince my colleagues and chieves
that
Perforce
is a great tool for this purpose.
For several reasons I love using
Perforce
even though I'm a supporter of Open Source Software as
Subversion
is:
You have full access to the really comprehensive
documentation
provided by
Perforce Software's website
without the coercion in subscribing.
I would like to emphasize that the documentation leaves almost nothing to be desired.
Perforce
is a matured software. The company
Perforce Software
was founded by the SCM specialist
Christopher Seiwald
in 1995.
The company aims without intermission to implement features requested by the
Perforce
administrators who have the privilege to consult the support.
Perforce
is despite its functional range a very slim and reliable software.
In the two years I maintained the
Perforce server
comprising 15 licences only one crash
occurred. At that time the machine was exhaustively stressed by testers. The result
was a lack of memory and Perforce was not able to spawn new processes.
Perforce
needs only low administration efforts. I could keep the focus on my activities
as developer.
Indeed, I experienced that
Perforce Software's
support is very courteous, very fast and
very competent. I had a lot of fruitful discussions with Tony Smith and Steve Borrett, both from Perforce Software Europe, UK.
"You may use software downloaded from
Perforce
for any purpose you want and for as long as you like,
provided no modifications are made to the software.
The
Perforce server
supports only two users and five client workspaces unless used with a
Perforce License.
We will be happy
to issue you a free
Evaluation License
to remove the user/workspace restrictions for a limited time."
Moreover:
Assume you acquired a license granting you the privilege to contact the support.
If you decide later that you are no longer willing to pay the support fee for the next
(support) year, you will only loose the support and update options but no feature
of the currently used release will be disabled.
Pay attention to the web page labeled
Perforce Licensing & Pricing
to get a complete survey of
Perforce Software's
license policies.
Bear in mind that I was responsible to introduce a new software configuration management system at the former business unit Business Integrations of the company Danet GmbH in 2001. I could convince my colleagues and chieves that Perforce is a great tool for this purpose. For several reasons I love using Perforce even though I'm a supporter of Open Source Software as Subversion is:
In the two years I maintained the Perforce server comprising 15 licences only one crash occurred. At that time the machine was exhaustively stressed by testers. The result was a lack of memory and Perforce was not able to spawn new processes.
"You may use software downloaded from Perforce for any purpose you want and for as long as you like, provided no modifications are made to the software.
The Perforce server supports only two users and five client workspaces unless used with a Perforce License. We will be happy to issue you a free Evaluation License to remove the user/workspace restrictions for a limited time."
Assume you acquired a license granting you the privilege to contact the support. If you decide later that you are no longer willing to pay the support fee for the next (support) year, you will only loose the support and update options but no feature of the currently used release will be disabled.
Pay attention to the web page labeled Perforce Licensing & Pricing to get a complete survey of Perforce Software's license policies.
By the way, in November 2003 I was a participant of the first Perforce German User Group meeting.