[AccessD] SourceSafe

Jim,

It was a lot of little things that we thought should be improved, but
they did not give them any priority and were not included in any of the
releases during that time.  If VSS was the only product on the market we
would have stayed with it because version control is very important in a
project team environment.

But about two years ago we decided to explore alternatives and our
evaluation team determined that VM was far ahead of VSS in features and
ease of use, so we switched.  Maybe VSS has caught up and passed VM in
the 18 months or so since we made the decision to switch, so don't take
my word for how things now stand.

Again, if you haven't finalized your decision then please look at
alternatives such as VM.

Charles Wortz
Software Development Division
Texas Education Agency
1701 N. Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701-1494
512-463-9493
CWortz at tea.state.tx.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim DeMarco [mailto:Jdemarco at hshhp.org] 
Sent: Friday 2003 Aug 01 08:30
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] SourceSafe

Any particular reason(s) Charles?  About half of staff have used it
(VSS) and seemed to like it but may not have explored options.

Thanks,

Jim DeMarco


-----Original Message-----
From: Wortz, Charles [mailto:CWortz at tea.state.tx.us]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:25 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] SourceSafe


Jim,

Unless you have finalized your decision to go with VSS, may I suggest
Merant's PVCS Version Manager, see www.merant.com.  We used VSS for
several years and decided to switch to VM a year ago and we haven't
regretted it.

Charles Wortz
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim DeMarco [mailto:Jdemarco at hshhp.org] 
Sent: Friday 2003 Aug 01 08:01
To: AccessD (E-mail)
Subject: [AccessD] SourceSafe

We are in the process of purchasing Visual SourceSafe as we've really
not been managing our code up to this point.  My question is, is there a
difference between the stand-alone version and the version that ships
with Visual Studio (we have VS 6 licenses)?  I'm under the impression
that the VS version can't be run on our network but stand-alone is
designed for this.  Is this true?  I can't get a sense of this from the
M$ site.

TIA,

Jim DeMarco
Director of Product Development
HealthSource/Hudson Health Plan