On Thursday 23 Sep 2004 12:48, Brett Parker wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:30:57PM +0100, Matt Parker wrote:
On Thursday 23 Sep 2004 12:12, Andrew Savory wrote:
Hi,
On 23 Sep 2004, at 11:22, Matt Parker wrote:
Subversion is NOT ready for enterprise level networks. I don't care what has happened to your data. I'd like to see you try and go into a large enterprise and convince the IT PHB that Subversion is ready to manage all their source code. Hint : It ain't going to happen, and he/she is likely to call you a muppet for suggesting it ;-)
And the pointless mindless FUD award of the month goes to ...
You see, this is the reason why Linux itself is only being slowly accepted into the mainstream. Mindless zealotry and sarcastic attitudes. You've got to realise that the people in control are VERY conservative when it comes to their IT infrastructure - mostly due to the fact that they don't understand it. This is the way of the world unfortunately and trying to change it too quickly is not the way to go about things.
Yes there will be a time for Subversion, but not yet. The last contract I worked on was for a very large international software company (who you will have heard of) who are only just discussing moving from Visual SourceSafe to CVS. Subversion was mentioned but was quickly dismissed because it "hadn't been around long enough" and wasn't "tried and tested".
They might as well stick with sourcesafe then, at least that mightn't fuck up the archive. As for linux only now becoming mainstream, what planet are you on? There's a whole *FUCKLOAD* of linux servers out there, far out numbering Microsoft or proprietary servers. And with the likes of IBM, HP, Novell, SGI and even Sun getting in on the act, I'd say that linux is damned mainstream, my dear boy.
Oh come on, that's not what I'm talking about and you know it. I'm talking development environments not web-servers, desktops, mail servers or anything else. I'm not even talking about Linux servers necessarily (you do know that CVS and Subversion run on Windows machines as well as all the other *nix machines don't you?). You should also know that I've worked in precisely one company that had Linux on the desktop anywhere - apart from my own company - and that was only in R&D.
Until you've worked in the real world in development, I'll take what you're saying with a very large pinch of salt - and no, contributing to open-source software doesn't count - I'm talking about holding down a development role in a software company or contracting out to one.
Matt