Plastic SCM vs. SVN

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Published on 2009-06-19T19:29:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 0:33 UTC
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I'm currently researching new source control options for a team of 10 developers. We do .net development in Visual Studio 2008. We currently use VSS for source control.

We are looking for a centralized source control solution(non-distributed), with a nice Visual Studio plugin. My manager has recommended Plastic SCM and I've always heard good things about Subversion. I'm trying to decide if we should adopt Subversion or Plastic SCM.

There isn't much information out there about Plastic SCM (except what they've written) and I was wondering if it would be a good solution. They make it sound as if branching is much simpler.

Subversion on the other hand has a robust, mature community, and it has been thoroughly field tested.

What are the pros and cons to these tools?

Also are there any other tools that you could suggest?

Thanks

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