On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 23:19 +0100, Martin Smithurst wrote:
The team are unhappy with the current Version Control software - TeamSource bundled with Borland C++ Builder (they had nothing before I arrived!). So I am hoping to trial Subversion and have another go at OSS advocacy ;-) This is possibly a little ambitious on the doddery PC I am using but beggars can't be choosers.
We used version control (back then it was CVS with the CVSweb add ons) as leverage to get OSS into the last company I worked for.
Before I started the back end was 100% Microsoft. By the time I left 100% of customer facing systems were running Linux, The online Game server product was hosted on Linux, The E Commerce system was the first Linux Intershop installation to use Worldpay. (I reverse engineered the Solaris Worldpay Intershop cartridge...but that's another story for an other time)
Many internal systems (and even a few workstations) were also running various flavours of Linux.
Also one of the developers released an improved windows CVS client http://www.tortoisecvs.org/ and the company eventually released Linux versions of some of it's products http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?nc=1119802833&gameref=82
Despite being bought and sold a few times, Linux use in that company has grown to the point that I believe the server room is now possibly 100% OSS.