NuWave Solutions

[Angel Ezquerra]

El 18/12/2014 18:35, "Adrian Klaver" <adrian.klaver at aklaver.com> escribió:
>
> On 12/18/2014 08:28 AM, Shaun Kravitz wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Shaun Kravitz and I am the Vendor Manager for NuWave
>> Solutions. We have been contracted by a branch of the United States
>> Federal Government to provide consulting services regarding the Version
>> Control system they are currently using, IBM Clear-Quest. We are
>> evaluating Version Control systems like yours to make a recommendation
>> whether they should stay or switch. We will not download a free version
>> of your system and test it ourselves. So I’d like to request a formal
>> demonstration of Mercurial to evaluate its capabilities in greater
>> detail. I look forward to hearing back from you.
>
>
> This is the mailing list for the Mercurial project. It is an Open Source
project and not a company, so there is no one delegated to do
demonstrations. There is a tutorial that demonstrates what is possible:
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial
>
> and there is the Support page that lists companies that do Mercurial
support:
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Support
>
>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Shaun Kravitz
>>
>> Vendor Manager
>>
>> (443) 472-0146
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.klaver at aklaver.com

Shaun,

if you want to advise your client for or against using mercurial or any of
the other existing open source version control solutions, you have several
options IMHO:

- check the software yourselves (e.g. by downloading it or watching any of
the many excellent mercurial tutorials that you may find online).
- hire a contractor or a consulting company specialized in version control
tools to do a demo for you
- contact a company such as FogCreek which provides an on site mercurial
based version control solution

This may not match what you are used to in the corporate world but given
how much better the open source version control solutions are nowadays
compared with their closed source counterparts I don't think you can ignore
them.

At my current company I personally championed and led the switch from
ClearCase to mercurial. I believe that it was a very successful switch and
that after the expected adjustment period (which was shorter than we
thought it would be) our productivity and developer satisfaction was much
increased.

Cheers,

Angel
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