Source control hosting heats up: Dynamsoft introduces SourceAnywhere

It's usually aimed at the open source crowed with sites like Assembla, SourceForge and others, but now it seems that a new player is in town. Can they make it where others don't charge anything?

Kevin Gao from Dynamsoft pinged me by email to tell me that they have a hosted solution for source control which uses SQL server (kinda like SourceGear Vault only hosted). It's interesting to see another player in this space. Here's what they list on the features side:

"Key features

  • SaaS (Software as a Service) delivery mode
  • Fully managed service: support, maintenance, backup and disaster recovery all included
  • High availability: hosted in a N+1 redundant data center
  • High SourceSafe GUI similarity
  • High reliability: SQL Server is used to ensure your data integrity
  • High performance: sign up today and experience it
  • High security: SSL, password policy
  • Cross platform: Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and any Java compatible platforms
  • IDE integration: Visual Studio, Eclipse, Dreamweaver plug-in

Key benefits

  • Simplify your IT infrastructure
  • Lower your total cost of ownership and increase your cost predictability
  • Improve the productivity of your development team
  • Help your team focus on what you do best - developing your leading applications "

It also looks exactly like SourceSafe:

 

Interesting. Has anyone had any experience with this yet?

Published Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:02 AM by RoyOsherove
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:13 AM by jack

# re: Source control hosting heats up: Dynamsoft introduces SourceAnywhere

The real question is how long will they be in business. I'd hate to see an operation like this go off the radar with my entire repository.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:21 AM by Gopinath

# re: Source control hosting heats up: Dynamsoft introduces SourceAnywhere

I work in a Banking Sector, and we use SoruceAnywhere ! The Product is real cool, any where u compare, esp. try using any source safe over vpn link !

This is the fastest (vpn or not!), look-a-like VSS and easy to connect to exsisting VSS.

100 % recommended.

Thanks,

varadhg

Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:19 PM by Jim Burger

# re: Source control hosting heats up: Dynamsoft introduces SourceAnywhere

Another recent player in hosted source control is Readify with TFS Now. Judging by their pricing its a lot cheaper than buying and setting up your own TFS in house, and also seems very price competitive with Dynamsoft's SourceAnywhere.

We've been using TFS at work for about 18 months now and its extremely robust, the main reason why we went that way was because our VSS repository corrupted too often.

Friday, August 10, 2007 5:54 PM by acer2007

# re: Source control hosting heats up: Dynamsoft introduces SourceAnywhere

I just checked the pricing of TFS from Readify. It is just too higH:

$995 for 5 users. $600setup up fee.

For the first 5 users,it is more than 10 times higher than SourceAnywhere Hosted.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:17 PM by James

# re: Source control hosting heats up: Dynamsoft introduces SourceAnywhere

SourceAnywhere Hosted is highly recommended. Our team is using it . very good. It is the source control hosting we deserve. We have about 500 developers. Our manager is planning to use that thing for all our distributed teams.

Roy, thanks for bringing up this topic.

100% recommended.