A while ago I was searching for free source control software, and found Perforce (
www.perforce.com). It is NOT free in general, but for 1-2 developers, it is free. Otherwise, the price is around 750 dollars per developer, IIRC. I believe this is a little more expensive than VSS.
They claim that they are very efficient - compared to VSS - with the handling of very large projects, but that doesn't apply to me, and it may not apply to you, either.
For the purposes I used it, I found it to be quite similar to Visual SourceSafe.
Free (open-source) systems exist as well - I think the most famous one is called CVS. However, I haven't tried it myself.
A search for "CVS" will give you several interesting threads, for example:
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805265>Hi,
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>I work for a company that is owned by an american corporation, in this case the Sarbanes-Oxley Act applies to it, even if their office is in Brazil.
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>To comply with the SarbOx Act they are implementing the COBIT model (more info can be found in the
IT Governance Institute), and one of those things that must be regulated is source code version control.
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>They are intending to use MS Visual SourceSafe for that. Is it a good choice? Is there any other good software(s) for that purpose?
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>TIA,
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>Fernando
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