Comments on: How We Integrated our Offshore Development Team

By: Tahir

Tahir — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:39:12 +0000

Glad to be of help.

By: Tahir

Tahir — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:50:59 +0000

3rd Floor
No 197, H.M. Rochester,
Double Road,
Indiranagar, Bangalore – 560038

By: Shadab

Shadab — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:43:25 +0000

Can you let me know your office location in Bangalore?

Accurev seems to be interesting. want to know more about this.

By: accurev

accurev — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:38:51 +0000

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By: Tahir

Tahir — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:56:54 +0000

Kal,

I couldn’t agree with you more. After dealing with the Serena support for a couple of years and getting nowhere we actually came off support and now manage the system ourselves. This was a major reason for us not wanting to consider the “upgrade to the latest Dimensions” route.

Tahir.

By: Shams Mahmood

Shams Mahmood — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:39:06 +0000

we faced similar problems with our scm – perforce, but a lot of that has been addresses thanks to intellij’s perforce plugin which now supports offline mode

By: Kala

Kala — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:40:43 +0000

I wish the speed of my SCM was the most important thing when it came to development, but have you ever dealt with Serena support or tried to get Dimensions running in less than a month? See you at the monster mash. What a nightmare.

Kal

By: Mir

Mir — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:26:40 +0000

Thought you might be interested to know that Serena spent a significant development effort addressing the WAN performance issues mentioned in this article and the results have been stunning: WAN performance in the latest release 10.1.3 is 20-fold faster than 9.x! It is also benchmarked as being several fold faster than SVN and 60 times faster than IBM ClearCase! Check out the announcement at
http://www.serena.com/pages/campaigns/landing-page512/index.html?Campaign_Id=26260&Activity_Id=10882

The key reasons for the improvements are two fold: (a) a new library cache feature is provided that removes the unnecessary transfer of files from the server to the clients (so a checkout in India against a central repository in US will not transfer files if they are already in a library cache in India), and (b) data and file transfers are sent in compressed packets which are then streamed directly to the client with minimum packet handshake.

I encourage you to try out the latest Dimensions 10.1.3 release. You will be pleasantly surprised with the scale of the WAN performance improvements.