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I understand that TestTrack TCM has been integrated with JIRA at some shops.

Full disclosure: I work on this product.

Well, I shall hereby prove that we are surrounded by dark matter, using the mass-energy equivalence work of Einstein and Poincare. We know that E == +|- m * C*C

Let's append (d) to signify the quality of 'dark'.
So, E(d) == m(d) * C*C

As we are all aware, m(d) is the abbreviation for medical doctor (+|- the parentheses), so let's go ahead and substitute for physicists (and since the last parenthetical phrase says +|- the parentheses, lets get rid of the +|- and the parentheses), which would give us :
Ed == Phd * C*C.

Now we all know that ED is the universal abbreviation for Erectile Dysfunction, so let's go ahead and substitute:
Bob Dole == PhD * C*C.

And of course, Dole grows pineapples, and since SpongeBob lives in one under the C, we get
Bob * C/Pineapple == C * C.

Lets go ahead and simplify to:
Bob/pineapple == C

Since one normally bobs for apples, we can substitute again to achieve:
1*apple/pineapple == C, or 1/pine == C, or 1 == C*pine

And we all know that Seapine makes Surround SCM[1], so we get that:

1 == Surround, or Surround == 1. Or:
Surround == true.

There, I have used Einstein's and Poincare's work to prove that we are surrounded by dark matter.

[1] Just a note, I'm not affiliated with Seapine, but I thought I'd provide a link anyway.

Surround SCM has all the goodies that one would normally associate with a source control tool. (Atomic check-in's, branching, diffing, merging, blah blah blah.) It also has some added features for document revisioning, particularly MS Word docs, that could be very helpful. It is actually integrated into Word so that check out's and check in's can be done without ever leaving the word processor. It also supports diffing of Word documents which I know we use a lot for all the reams of documentation we create.

There is both a full GUI client and a command line client and it comes on Windows/Mac OS X/Linux/Solaris. (For the curious it is written with Qt.) It might be worth checking out.

Let me start this with a disclaimer. I *am* an employee of Seapine Software, so I'm not exactly a dis-interested third party.

I work on the helpdesk for Seapine Software, a small software company that, for a decade, has concentrated on providing easy to use software for managing software development. One of our products is a GUI (we also provide a CLI as part of the package for those who need it) version control system, called Surround SCM. It is cross platform, supporting Windows, Linux, Solaris, and MacOS X for both the server and the client.

It is quite feature rich, and specifically, handles versioning of image files very well. It can be used to version any kind of file (text and binary alike), so it can be used outside of the Source Code Management market, that just happens to be our current target market. It is not Free/Open Source software, but compared to other commercial SCM/FVM (Source Code Management/File Version Management) offerings on the market, is very competitively priced.

As I work on the helpdesk, I get a good idea of the relative quality of our products (believe me, products that aren't very good aren't very pleasant to support), and Surround SCM is, from my perspective, a very strong product. We offer a trial download that you can use to evaluate the product for a month, to see if it fits your needs.

Let me start this with a disclaimer. I *am* an employee of Seapine Software, so I'm not exactly a dis-interested third party.

I work on the helpdesk for Seapine Software, a small software company that, for a decade, has concentrated on providing easy to use software for managing software development. One of our products is a GUI (we also provide a CLI as part of the package for those who need it) version control system, called Surround SCM. It is cross platform, supporting Windows, Linux, Solaris, and MacOS X for both the server and the client.

It is quite feature rich, and specifically, handles versioning of image files very well. It can be used to version any kind of file (text and binary alike), so it can be used outside of the Source Code Management market, that just happens to be our current target market. It is not Free/Open Source software, but compared to other commercial SCM/FVM (Source Code Management/File Version Management) offerings on the market, is very competitively priced.

As I work on the helpdesk, I get a good idea of the relative quality of our products (believe me, products that aren't very good aren't very pleasant to support), and Surround SCM is, from my perspective, a very strong product. We offer a trial download that you can use to evaluate the product for a month, to see if it fits your needs.

Kind of OT, but backs your statement:

Sage Line 50 is a great example of corporate greed. You pay £800 for the piece of software but lord if you want to insert or update information in a third-party program you need to pay around £1500 a year for the developer license.

The same is true with Seapines bug tracking system TestTrack Pro. After a lot of reverse engineering, I was able to put data into their proprietary bug database, but to get the data out of the db, you have to pay for the SDK.

A floating licence costs about 800 bucks (per user), the SDK is another 1000 bucks per SOAP client!

The product is not bad, but I just wanted to build an automated bug entry system on top of it...

Kind of OT, but backs your statement:

Sage Line 50 is a great example of corporate greed. You pay £800 for the piece of software but lord if you want to insert or update information in a third-party program you need to pay around £1500 a year for the developer license.

The same is true with Seapines bug tracking system TestTrack Pro. After a lot of reverse engineering, I was able to put data into their proprietary bug database, but to get the data out of the db, you have to pay for the SDK.

A floating licence costs about 800 bucks (per user), the SDK is another 1000 bucks per SOAP client!

The product is not bad, but I just wanted to build an automated bug entry system on top of it...

One of the things I'm continually amused by--the people who say "I use this program, it's not available for the Mac, so there's no software for the Mac." But if you look around, you'll find that you can do the same thing with some other software. And frankly, if IBM/Rational loses enough sales because they don't have a Mac version, they'll build one.

For example, a few years ago, there was no QuickBooks for Macintosh. So obviously, you couldn't run your business on a Mac without accounting software. The fact that MYOB/AccountEdge & BigBusiness existed was beside the point--if they didn't hear the word "QuickBooks", they said "There's no accounting software."

One of the things I'm continually amused by--the people who say "I use this program, it's not available for the Mac, so there's no software for the Mac." But if you look around, you'll find that you can do the same thing with some other software. And frankly, if IBM/Rational loses enough sales because they don't have a Mac version, they'll build one.

For example, a few years ago, there was no QuickBooks for Macintosh. So obviously, you couldn't run your business on a Mac without accounting software. The fact that MYOB/AccountEdge & BigBusiness existed was beside the point--if they didn't hear the word "QuickBooks", they said "There's no accounting software."