Evans Data Corp interviewed developers world-wide and asked them to rank the source code management systems they employ on a variety of elements from change request management and artifact traceability to support for geographically distributed teams and collaboration. Products that were ranked were both the top commercial products as well as leading open source version control solutions. Developers only ranked the products they had used, making these ratings fair and unbiased. This important reference features the strengths and weaknesses of the top SCMS, such as: • CVS • IBM Clearcase/Clearquest • MS Visual Sourcesafe • MS Visual Studio Team System • Perforce • Serena/PCVS • Subversion • StarTeam These leading products are rated across the following categories: • Change Management • Ease and granularity of access control • Administrative overhead • Branching, or streams • Performing releases • Merge tracking • Server usage • Bug tracking • Artifact traceability • Scalability • Performance • Support for geographically distributed development • Speed of check-in/check-out • Value for the price • Integration with other tools • Security Worldwide in scope, this insightful report takes a look into the demographics of the users, plus their intentions for further use of collaborative software, change management systems, and version control solutions. Custom drill-downs across specific regions are also possible, ask our sales representatives for full details. edc00002$495.00 © 2006 Evans Data Corp.