suggestions for CVS use

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: 07 May 2003 14:58:44 EDT
Kevin D. Clark said:

>No doubt about it though: ClearCase is a very resource intensive,
>expensive, sometimes unwieldy, powerful, and handy kind of tool.

My biggest complaint about CC is the price :)
Atria/Pure/Rational/IBM have you by the short ones and they know it !

Make no doubt about it, from a development tool perspective, 
ClearCase is an immensely powerful tool, and I honestly have never 
seen anything which can do what ClearCase is capable of.  That being 
said, it's also rare that I see an environment using CC which is 
properly set up to take total advantage of the power and flexibility 
of CC.  To do so requires a decent sized release engineering team 
well versed in CC administration, deep pockets to by lots of 
hardware, and a great sysadmin team which also understands the 
intricacies of CC from a sysadmin perspective.

Most shops have 1-2 CC admins, not enough money, and a sysadmin team 
which doesn't understand "why CC needs what it does", resulting in a 
far less than optimal implementation.  In which case, they should 
have stuck with CVS :)

BTW, in case it isn't obvious, I actually *like* ClearCase, I just 
don't want to have to admin it :)
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