[p4] Emulate ClearCase

[daaku6-66@yahoo.com]

Hi, 
 
Let me say first - I've used Perforce minimally and I like it compared to most other SC systems. Its fast and simple - two important things for a developer! 
 
But now I've been given a difficult task - move our code from ClearCase (which has code from almost a decade) to Perforce. Moving the code itself is not very difficult. We don't care much about preserving history - as we're going to keep our ClearCase boxes around for a while anyways. What is turning out to be difficult is our environment setups, which are lightly speaking, horrible. 
 
Let me explain: 
    - We have a branch for each project 
    - We have multiple environment's which can be mapped to any given branch 
    - We have a box where developers go an edit files 
 
As we are primarily developing web based content, we do not have a build-deploy cycle. 
 
We have the `live` code from a branch, which includes checked-in & checked-out files for a specific branch mounted on one of the environments. This allows us to test out code without having to check-in the files. Also, this allows us to share the environment between multiple developers. 
 
I know I'm not doing a very good job of explaining things, so if more clarification is needed - let me know. 
 
But basically, what I'm looking for is this: Be able to share a workspace between multiple users, and yet let them check-out & check-in files as themselves. 
 
 And RTFM replies with links to specific sections are okay!

Thanks! 
 
daaku