They've changed their licensing to make Perforce free for small development teams and added some kind of GIT interface. My guess is so many developers are coming out of college having used GIT that it's building user lock-in.
Totally disagree with this. While I've never done any admin work with our Perforce server, we've never needed to rewrite the code. If you're working with a less featureful product, there might be a need for the code base. Perforce is enterprise-quality software.
Slightly OT: Perforce trying to counter GIT surge (Score:4, Interesting)
They've changed their licensing to make Perforce free for small development teams and added some kind of GIT interface. My guess is so many developers are coming out of college having used GIT that it's building user lock-in.
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It is not possible to compete with Git on its own terms without being open source. Being zero-charge for small teams is not going to cut it, IMHO.
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Totally disagree with this. While I've never done any admin work with our Perforce server, we've never needed to rewrite the code. If you're working with a less featureful product, there might be a need for the code base. Perforce is enterprise-quality software.
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It's fine for me.
Git's source code is open and there's no DRM on top of the data storage format.
So any lock-in is completely voluntary on behalf of the user.