[p4] How does Foundation compare to Perforce?

[Jeremy.Chatelaine]

Thanks everyone for the interesting replies, it's very much appreciated.

There is a difference between what *I* use (Perforce), and what *the
company* is currently using (VSS) :)

My company is currently very interested in trying Microsoft Team
Foundation, I'm far from been a big fan of "Microsoft's first version
tools" (tm) myself to be fair and I'm not highly confident.

Although Perforce website did a great comparison document, it sounds odd
to me that Foundation is nothing else than a slow, hard to install &
configure Perforce (ok ok and without sparse branching). 
The mailing list didn't seem very verbose on the subject either (maybe
not enough exposure to team foundation at that time...)

So, is there any fundamental reasons why you would want to stay away of
Team Foundation for Source control, or is Team Foundation a serious
competitor to Perforce?
I never used Team Foundation myself yet.

Thanks again,
Jeremy

PS: I seem to remember something about shelving that Foundation has and
not Perforce and obviously it is not mentioned on the Perforce
comparison document.
Is there any interesting features that Foundation has and not Perforce
that the comparison document omitted?


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Janulewicz [mailto:MJanulewicz at greendotcorp.com] 
Sent: 03 July 2007 17:59
To: Smith, Jeff; Jeremy.Chatelaine; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: RE: [p4] How does Bitkeeper compare to Perforce?

It seems odd to me that a company with Perforce would suddenly run an
evaluation of other tools. Is there a shortcoming they're trying to fix?
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