[p4] Serena Dimension and Perforce

[Jeff Jensen]

Thanks John.

Yes, the foundations of Dimensions was the defense aerospace industry.
Approximately 6 years ago, PVCS purchased it from an English company that
had developed it for defense aircraft software management.  So it has lots
of process and security features for that type of meticulous environment.

I have yet to find someone that has used it and can give opinions and war
stories - it is one of the last couple of SCMs I would like to hear 1st hand
experience on!


-----Original Message-----
From: jpshack at gmail.com [mailto:jpshack at gmail.com] On Behalf Of John-Mason
P. Shackelford
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:05 PM
To: Jeff Jensen
Cc: Chuck Emary; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Serena Dimension and Perforce

Here at PEM we had licenses for Serena Dimensions and even with the licenses
already paid for the cost of implementing it across our organization was
going to be high enough and painful enough without clear benefit that we
eventually elected to dump the tool and to purchase and implement Perforce.
Three years into it we have been very happy with our decision.

We are primarily a web development shop (300+ perforce users) and rapid turn
around it very important to us. Dimensions seemed to us like it might be
more appropriate for a defense contractor. Others on the list may be able to
provide more insight on where Dimension works well.

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Pearson Educational Measurement

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