[p4] How does Foundation compare to Perforce?

[Shawn Hladky]

This thread has a pretty good summary of the differences with an MS bias
(and they even give some props to p4).
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=543517&SiteID=1

I'd add one big negative to TFS-- no revision graph.  That, for me, is an
absolute show-stopper.


On 7/12/07, Smith, Jeff <jsmith at medplus.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
> [snip]
>
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