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In article <m40m+q#.ash@netcom.com> ash@netcom.com (Ashvin Patel) writes:
>   TeamNet as been around for over five years now, and is being used
>   extensively by many large corporations. From what I understand about
>   ClearCase, they have only been around for about 18 months and
>   are they have only just finished beta testing on the Sun and HP platforms.

ClearCase began shipping their product on Sun/HP in the beginning of Aug 92.
The version that runs on SGI machines has been shipping longer.

>   As to the use of filesystems, TeamNet seems to have a more transparent
>   and easier to use filesystem than ClearCase. ClearCase requires greater
>   effort to setup and use. The method of setting up source baselines
>   and workareas for TeamNet was just far easier and required less thought
>   than ClearCase. This doesn't mean that TeamNet lacks functionality.
>   TeamNet seemed to be a more "natural" way of working, and more
>   intuitive.  Lastly, TeamNet's architecture seems to be more mature
>   and better tought out, there seems to be alot of growing room designed into
>   the product. The underlying system is built on top of an OODB, which
>   a future product called the "Process Automation Kit" will capitalize on.
>   ClearCase to me seemed like a DSEE clone, that just wont scale in large
>   environments and wont grow with a company. The underlying architure
>   would probably need to change drastically for tha product to grow and
>   change over the years, especially there DB, which is based on a
>   relational database that just does not seem suited to handle the type
>   of meta-data required for a CM system.

This is suspiciously identical to what TeamNet told us about ClearCase.
Did you actually evaluate the two products, and come to this conclusion,
or are you just repeating what you were told by TeamNet ?

Since DSEE is by far the most sophisticated commercial SCM system that
has appeared in the last 10 years, calling something a "DSEE clone" is
properly interpreted as a high compliment.

This is not to say that the TeamNet claims are incorrect, just that they
are not coming from the most unbiased source (:-).

Cheers,

Geoff




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