Version Control vs. Change/Release Management

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Created on Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:39

Written by Warren McCall

First off, I will say that I like Subversion.  I am actually a big fan of Tortoise SVN and love the way it integrates directly into the filesystem and helps developers manage shared code versioning.  That being said, I work in a world where development shops need more than what Subversion, CVS, PVCS, and their version control cousins can manage.  The clients I deal with have usually outgrown these types of version control tools and are needing a greater level of enterprise Change and Release management that is difficult or impossible to achieve with version control tools.