[p4] How does Foundation compare to Perforce?

[Smith, Jeff]

I have no experience with Foundation.  The biggest thing that is lacking
is multi-platform support.  If you need this or there is a potential you
will need it in the future, you might want to shy away from it.  The
other concern I might have with Foundation is the newness of it.  As a
fairly new product, it's hard to know what you don't know.  Unless you
have a very good evaluation program (including things like load testing)
you might want to avoid any product for which there isn't a large user
base available for help and information.  Finally, Perforce support is
stellar very reasonably priced.  That is hard for any company to beat.
If you are going to go with a Microsoft product that is central to your
business, you'll probably want to consider going with a higher-tier plan
that what comes with the boxed software.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy.Chatelaine [mailto:Jeremy.Chatelaine at actant.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:48 AM
To: Matthew Janulewicz; Smith, Jeff; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: How does Foundation compare to Perforce?

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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