I was recently reading Geoff Koch’s article in Software Test and Performance magazine on SCM: More Than Code Check-In, Check-Out. It was a short, but good article talking about how CM is similar regardless of whether you write articles or software. I would agree. I believe that i just becomes a matter of complexity.
I found a couple of interesting points in his article:
- Wikipedia has an exhaustive list of revision control software.
- Money magazine lists software engineer as No. 1 in its Best Jobs in America (which I knew), and that release engineers are hailed as having the top-paying jobs (which I didn't know).
- Google's Dan Bloch recently stated that they have more than 3,000 users accessing a single Perforce repository running on an HP 4-way Opteron server with 128gb. Wowsers!