felleman@cg-atla.agfa.com (John Felleman) (02/28/90)
We are contemplating a switch from our home-grown configuration management
system to Sun's NSE. I am very interested in comments from others who
have experience with it. Answers to the following questions will be
helpful:
+ Are the features useful for managing a complex product development
effort?
+ How much work is it to migrate to NSE from another build
environment?
+ How difficult is it for developers to use on a day-to-day
basis?
+ How much time, and what level of expertise, is required to
maintain the NSE environment?
+ How reliably does the NSE run with respect to run-time bugs
and data integrity?
+ How good is Sun's technical support, for all of the above
areas (migration, day-to-day, use, training, bug-fixing)?
As background, our development includes several related products based
on Sun 386i and Sparc platforms, using XNeWS, developed mostly in
C. Our current build system is simply some shell scripts wrapped around
make and SCCS.
Thank you for your replies,
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