IBM's RTC and Microsoft's TFS 2010

Question

What in your view are the most important differences?
Need to make an expensive decision...

Information:

• We have both Java and .NET Projects (few more .NET)
• Very interested in project life cycle management.
• Migrating from ClearCase

Answer 1

Is it really a question? Not nagging, but what is your toolstack to start with. What versions we talk about? (note Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 are just around the corners - both a lot better, still usable for .NET 2.0 upward).

Without more information you get tons of idiotic little feature lists - because we dont know how to answer properly in the big picture. This is like "what are all the differences between a BMW 3 and a Mercedes SLK" - TONS of small things, TONS of relevant things, but what do you want? ;)

Answer 2

1. TFS doesnt have any support for eclipse or any such editors yet, (they are about to come, but no news yet). So which editor you use for your java projects that matters here. But Microsoft is coming up with teamprise which can let you connect TFS (which can work better for your java+.net)

2. And ofcourse for .net projects, TFS is the best, eclipse support for .net/c# is bad, we are using TFS and am lot happy with 2010.

I think for RTC dont know how much support is there for .net editors (VS or any other you prefer) but with TFS, you can certainly make .NET project work great and you can find Teamprise + TFS to work with eclipse also.

Answer 3

Stay away from Accurev, it is a nightmare, as a developer with personal daily battles with it. Git, Mecurial, Darcs, or SVN are much better choices. As far as all of the "features" of Accurev, you likely won't ever miss them, you'll be too busy swearing.