On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:17:11 +0200, Albert Klimek 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In the past we had a similar situation. The management had decided to 
remove CA Librarian. 

I can understand one would want to remove CA; after all, although I have no 
experience with Librarian, I do have experience with CA. No offence...


>I know nothing about SCLM, but we have selected CVS/MVS for our 
purposes. 

Again, I have no real experience using either SCLM or CVS, but both only 
support well the versioning and give you (very) little life cycle (workflow) 
management. And it is precisely the life cycle management that I feel is 
important.


>The special decision criteria for CVS on MVS: 
>- low cost solution by using Open Source 

Don't be fooled by the fact that you do not have to pay $$$ for acquiring the 
software. The real cost is in implementation, migration, training, etc.

>I developed an ISPF-Frontend for ease of use and to control the workflow 
(test, quality-control, integration, production)

You see: that is were your cost will go...

> Therefore we are very flexible for future expansions. 

Sorry, no, you will not. Because you will have to do it all yourself and on 
your 
own. In my book you are always better of buying something than building it.

My opinion.

Cheers,

Jantje.

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