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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Arthur Cesar Oreana <ao...@gmail.com> on 2010/08/05 19:43:08 UTC
SVN's market-share
Hi everyone!
Is there a paper, case study or website showing the SVN's market-share?
Something like the numbers of users, companies, etc?
I need to create a document with this information to oppose the enemy force
(some proprietary solutions). =)
Hope your help!
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Re: SVN's market-share
Posted by Mark Phippard <ma...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Arthur Cesar Oreana <ao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Is there a paper, case study or website showing the SVN's market-share?
> Something like the numbers of users, companies, etc?
>
> I need to create a document with this information to oppose the enemy force
> (some proprietary solutions). =)
This is somewhat old now, but SVN was the leader then and it has only
gotten stronger since:
http://www.collab.net/forrester_wave_report/
Gartner recently issued a new quadrant on ALM which touched on SVN and
it was essentially the leader.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Re: SVN's market-share
Posted by Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 15:43, Arthur Cesar Oreana <ao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> Is there a paper, case study or website showing the SVN's market-share?
>> Something like the numbers of users, companies, etc?
>>
>> I need to create a document with this information to oppose the enemy force
>> (some proprietary solutions). =)
>
> If the number of people using SVN is a significant portion of the
> selection criteria, then the wrong people are making the decision
> about what software to use.
The number of users correlates highly with its maturity, its
available community support, its lack of killer bugs, its
cross-platform stability, and its ease of deployment. This is why
Subversion's evolution as "CVS done right" was so effective: CVS was
very popular among many shops, and it leveraged the popularity of CVS,
even though CVS had many flaws (which Subversion attempted to
address).
Re: SVN's market-share
Posted by Arthur Cesar Oreana <ao...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 15:43, Arthur Cesar Oreana <ao...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > Is there a paper, case study or website showing the SVN's market-share?
> > Something like the numbers of users, companies, etc?
> >
> > I need to create a document with this information to oppose the enemy
> force
> > (some proprietary solutions). =)
>
> If the number of people using SVN is a significant portion of the
> selection criteria, then the wrong people are making the decision
> about what software to use.
>
Andy, certainly this isn't a good criteria but when we talk about any
software to managers, they always ask the number of users. Unfortunately.
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Arthur César Oreana
aoreana (at) gmail (dot) com - Linux User #252814
http://www.postgresql.org/ - http://www.postgresql.org.br/
http://community.java.net/ - http://technowild.blogspot.com/
Re: SVN's market-share
Posted by Trevor Harmon <tr...@vocaro.com>.
On Aug 5, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the number of people using SVN is a significant portion of the
> selection criteria, then the wrong people are making the decision
> about what software to use.
That's an oversimplification. I agree it's not a primary criterion, but an important one nonetheless. There's a correlation between market share and other key factors such as how well the product is supported now and in the future. I find this to be especially true of open source projects.
Trevor
Re: SVN's market-share
Posted by Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 15:43, Arthur Cesar Oreana <ao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Is there a paper, case study or website showing the SVN's market-share?
> Something like the numbers of users, companies, etc?
>
> I need to create a document with this information to oppose the enemy force
> (some proprietary solutions). =)
If the number of people using SVN is a significant portion of the
selection criteria, then the wrong people are making the decision
about what software to use.
RE: SVN's market-share
Posted by Bob Archer <Bo...@amsi.com>.
> Is there a paper, case study or website showing the SVN's market-
> share? Something like the numbers of users, companies, etc?
>
> I need to create a document with this information to oppose the
> enemy force (some proprietary solutions). =)
>
Every svn webcast I have seen by collabnet they usually have a slide that shows market penetration and growth. You might be able to find some slide decks on their web site.
BOb