Very well said Roy! I agreed with you on most of the
points.
@Stephan,
The way I understand history, Excel and Word took the
market by storm because their competitors were stupid.
Lotus 123 spent a lot of time re-writing their code, and
the Word competitors didn't have a Windows version until
very late in the game.
Also, can you think about the killer "embed excel in
word" feature for TFS?
My bosses loved the open source source/control and bug
tracking software because everything was displayed in
"Table/Spreadsheet" views.
They're all old ENgineers. The developers were cryinging
for TFS for months while it was in beta, heck we were
even throwing tantrums, and we finally got our way
mwhaha.
However, once we got TFS a few of the managers and
directors hated it because looking at the Work Items was
too hard for them. Until we showed them the Export to
Excel... then we had to teach them... ignore that...
then we had to write their queries for them.
But, once all that was done, they loved TFS. THere are
many featuers of TFS that we can now not live wihout.
The main one is the ability to check in code, and have
it linked to bugs in the same system.
When MS Excel first came out, it sucked compared to
Lotus 123. MS has always used the Speed to Market
Strategy for new products. THey got Excel out, and then
they improved on it. Eventually, it was better than
Lotus 123.
suprised to see subversion poll so well. i thought of it
more as an 'up and comer' than a 'most popular' winner.
That's because subversion just works. The thing I don't
like with TFS is that I cant use it with my old VS 2003
projects.
The thing putting me off TFS is the extortionately high
pricing.
Team Edition for Software Developers - new
installation... $5,469 for first year, $2,229 for
subsequent.
Visual Studio Pro Edition is a $799 one-off.
Sure Subversion, AnkhSVN, Trac, NUnit etc. aren't well
integrated but over a 3 year period you're paying nearly
$10,000 PER DEVELOPER for integration.
Sure there are other benefits for being with the MSDN
subscription it comes bundled with but not enough to
justify $50,000 over the next 3 years for a small 5-man
team.
[)amien
At our company, we have a full open source pipeline: