Why to Go With Licensed Version Control Tool When Open Source Tool is There

Abstract

This Paper introduces why organizations should use licenced version control tool when open source tool (GIT) is available in the market. To purchase and maintain such tools, its hard for the small organizations, and now becoming a challenge for the large organizations too. For such kind of reasons and to make organizations cost effective, idea came for migration from vendor IBM Rational Clearcase to an open Source tool GIT/subversion. When all similar features are available in the open source tool GIT.

Keywords: Software configuration management, Clearcase, GIT, repository, cloning.