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At my previous employer, we looked at Chrystal's Canterbury and decided against it. Which turned out to be a pretty good decision because within a year the product was on life support. There simply was never enough of a client base to justify the development/maintenance cost.<BR>
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Chrystal Software was a Xerox incubator company whose main products were a CMS called Astoria and an XML editor called Eclipse. Xerox sold Chrystal to a company called Lightspeed Interactive in early 2002. In mid-2002, Lightspeed was bought by a company called TopicalNet, who adopted the Lightspeed name post-purchase. Then in late 2002, Lightspeed was bought by a company called Astoria Software. More recently, Astoria Software was bought by TransPerfect, a translation company.<BR>
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From: samantha_lizak@mentor.com<BR>To: eshishid@brocade.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com<BR>Subject: RE: FrameMaker and ClearCase<BR>Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:48:52 +0000<BR><BR>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">We looked at it, but FM files are binaries. The repository gets huge very quickly. Also, even if you store MIF instead, you still can’t get any of the usual ClearCase benefits of merging or doc comparison, because MIFs (at least in older versions; this was FM6) do not preserve where the line ends and the internal marker IDs change every time you update. It took up a lot of memory and there really wasn’t much we could do with it other than get out archived copies (and that wasn’t very easy). Incidentally, this problem applies with every source control system we’ve looked at; it isn’t just ClearCase. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">The one advantage would be if your employer is using the entire Rational system and wants to tie specific versions to completed requirements in another part of the suite. Still a lot of memory consumption, though.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">On this vein, back in the 90s there was a product called Canterbury from Chrystal Software designed to do source control and versioning specifically for FrameMaker. Anyone know what became of it?</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">-Sam.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Emelita Shishido<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 25, 2011 7:38 PM<BR><B>To:</B> framers@lists.frameusers.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> FrameMaker and ClearCase</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal>I wanted to know if anyone has used ClearCase for versioning their Frame files?</P>
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