perforce Questions

The cost of Rational ClearCase licensing combined with the complexities of UCM and MultiSite have forced us to look at alternative tools. We have five locations over 3 continents with a mix of UCM, base ClearCase, and MultiSite implementations. Through discussions with CM folks at our sibling subsidiary companies we have narrowed the options to SVN or Perforce.

Could somebody please give their opinions on how these tools stack up against ClearCase?

Kindly Share your Opnions.

I am seriously considering taking up Perforce as our version control tool and I'd like to garner people's opinions regarding the defect management component.

The tool will be used predominantly for SCM purposes by a team of about 30. However, there will be much more people (such as business and technical testers, customer service, managers) utilising the defect management tool to raise defects, enhancements, functional and non-functional requirements, the lot.

What i'd like to know is if access to the defect tracking tool in Perforce requires a full license as well or if there are any workarounds? If so, please advise. If not, then what are the best DM tools to integrate with Perforce at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

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