Are there serious companies that don't use version-control and continuous integration? Why?

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Published on 2011-04-07T12:18:13Z Indexed on 2012/03/24 17:37 UTC
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A colleague of mine was under the impression that our software department was highly advanced, as we used both a build server with continuous integration, and version control software. This did not match my point of view, as I only know of one company I which made serious software and didn't have either. However, my experience is limited to only a handful of companies.

Does anyone know of any real company (larger than 3 programmers), which is in the software business and doesn't use these tools? If such a company exists, are there any good reason for them not doing so?

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