With its per-seat licensing in the Thousands Of Dollars, you can't argue that Team System is an investment.  It is a very good source control + process guidance system, but if you are only short the source control part, it's a bit overkill.  We want to get rid of Source Safe, but its ease of use makes us lazy and complacent.  We haven't experienced a corrupted database yet, either, but I'm sure it will happen.

A friend of mine, Nic Webb, works for a company called Ariameda that just went through an upgrade (I don't think it's wrong to call it an upgrade) from Source Safe to Subversion.  He's really liking it.  Our company has hesitated moving to Subversion due to the misnomer that you must run it on Linux and you must have Apache.  Nic tells me these things are not true and plans to set us all straight on this with his first post on source control.

And at $0, the price is right.

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Jason Alexander :

Yeah, about a month ago, we switched from Vault to Subversion, and it's been awesome. And, you're right - it runs great on Windows. ;) I'd definitely recommend it!

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Scott Wilson :

Jason beat me to it.. I was just gonna say that.  SVN rocks, go with that :-)  I would mention that some interface stuff on the Windows client can be challenging to get used to - like ignoring a file or folder from checkins can be rather tedious at first, especially if you accidently didn't ignore them the first time you checked in.  Vault wasn't a half-bad solution, but rather difficult to use on a large scale and was relatively expensive.

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Nic Webb :

Hey man - thanks for the plug.  We're still going through the process though, so the updates will probably be concurrent with what's actually happening.  Scott added a very valid point - it's something I'll be touching on after we figure out our "repository policy."  I've noticed checking solutions in using AnkhSVN did a lot better at ignoring things like the SUO files and project output DLL's - but there's definitely other ways to do it.  Stay tuned :)

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