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From: paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Source Code Control
Summary: Ever heard of Software BackPlane?
Message-ID: <5905@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 30 Jun 89 05:46:31 GMT
References: <133@tirnan.UUCP> <9630007@hpirs.HP.COM>
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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There is a product on the market that addresses many of the issues that have
been discussed recently here in regards to source code management.  It's
called Software BackPlane.  Some of its features are:

- Maintains sequential versions of text or binary files
- Permits files to be collected into a project
- Permits files to be shared among projects
- Permits development branches to be taken and later merged (this is a merge
  at the file level, not a content merge like the one featured in NSE)
- Has a checkin/checkout mechanism that permits a file to be modified by only
  one person at a time
- It runs on SunOS, VMS, and Ultrix

The product addresses more problems as well, but these are some of the more
prominent points discussed recently.

More information can be had by writing to:

	Atherton Technology
	1333 Bordeaux Drive
	Sunnyvale, California 94089 USA

I'd like to discuss this product further, but as I am an employee of Atherton,
this posting is really a commercial which many on the net might consider to be
in bad taste.  But as I've followed this discussion for some weeks and have
seen no mention of our product, I felt I had to bring it up.
-- 
Paul Sander        (408) 734-9822       | If a machine is powerful enough
paul@Atherton.COM                       | to have a DWIM button, why bother
{decwrl,sun,pyramid}!athertn!paul       | with the button?  -- Eric Black