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Free alternatives to VSS
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18/10/2002 22:23:04
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Source Safe Control
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00712787
Message ID:
00713142
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19
>Hilmar,
>
>Why do you want an alternative for SourceSafe? Is it only for the money or are you dissatisfied with certain aspects of SourceSafe?

It is money. It is very hard to convince top-management to spend a few dimes on software. Well, it is not exactly dimes, but we do have some specialized machines for making shoe, some of which are probably worth tens of thousands of dollars. If not more. So allow me to grumble a little when they don't want to spend a few hundred dollars on some needed software. VSS can be replaced by other products, but I have had other cases where the required software can't be easily replaced. E.g.: upgrade from VFP 6 to VFP 7.

Otherwise, when I worked with VSS, I was quite content with it.

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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