I'm consulting an unnamed high-tech company where someone once decided that it would be a good idea to pay millions of dollars a year for the second-worst version control tool in existence (the worst is called "no version control at all"). I don't mind company A being arm-deep in company B's pockets but I do mind the fact that the developer's life in company B is made a living nightmare.

For example, how long a time would you consider a reasonable wait for a seemingly simple operation such as "show me the version control status for all four text files in directory X"?

How does 30 seconds sound to you?

Enterprise?

Very.

Not to mention that it takes 4 commands to add a file or a folder under version control from the command line.

*Sigh*

Fortunately we've been able to adopt Subversion on some projects and there is some movement within the organization to make Subversion an officially supported version control system.

Might not mean much to the international audience, except perhaps the few Railers among us, but I just spotted what I imagine is the first mention of Ruby on Rails in the Finnish IT press, namely in an article on "Web 2.0" in the February 23rd issue of ITviikko. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)