Alternative to SourceSafe in a Commercial Environment?

Jim the Bad asks: "After Visual SourceSafe inexplicably corrupted itself one time too many, my Boss has asked me to evaluate the alternatives. This site lists some alternatives, and SourceForge is a commercial product that might suit. Are there any more? It must be rock solid, run on Windows and it must be possible to migrate existing SourceSafe databases. Developer Studio integration is also very desirable. What product would you recommend?"

Comments

A coupla things

[The Bungi]

First, VSS is a crap version control system (if only because it's not client/server), but it doesn't corrupt itself randomly. You need to keep your database sizes to under 1GB or so, run ANALYZE on the thing at least every week (or more, depending on the activity) and generally keep binaries (especially large ones) off of it. Just because the thing has a pretty GUI doesn't mean it also takes care of itself. And of course, backup your database(s) often.

Your Visual Studio integration requirement is a doozy. I haven't seen anything that works as well as VSS, but then again, another recommendation is to stay away from that anyway. Always use the Explorer or the command line tools.

Finally, the alternatives. Well, there's the Very Expensive ones which I won't list because you probably know them anyway and, well, they're hideoulsy expensive.

Then there's CVS. An el-cheapo box running Linux or BSD with decent HDD space, and WinCVS or TortoiseCVS can't be beat. I've successfully migrated some development teams to this setup (along with Bugzilla) and while there's a learning curve, it's certainly much better. Plus, developers can work from home seamlessly, which is generally not the case with VSS. There are lots of tools and help out there for CVS. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed. Plus, it's cheap!