[ExI] [geek] good commercial svn hosts?

[Gary Miller]

Emlyn,

Just curious, why put your reputation on the line with these commercial
entities unless you've used one or more of these services enough to be
confident in their security, longevity and data integrity.

Open source is one thing.  It tends to proliferate and end up in multiple
repositories so a single group going belly up does not endanger the source's
existence.  And security is not an issue there.

But I can't imaging a commercial enterprise entrusting it's critical
development software, a major asset for most companies to a service unless
they were insured, bonded, escrowed and had an established track record to
insure that if the service goes belly up that their company doesn't go along
with it.

In addition most companies I deal with would not even allow their source
code to cross the internet unless it was via a VPN or some other encrypted
format.

Just my opinion but backing out gracefuly may be the best couse of action.

Gary


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Subject: [ExI] [geek] good commercial svn hosts?

Hi all,

I've recently been successful in convincing some commercial entities not to
use in-house source control, but to use an externally hosted subversion
repository. And now I've been asked the hard question, which service do you
recommend?

I had thought that sourceforge had a closed-source hosting service as well
as open source, but I can't see any sign of that. So I'm stuck with choosing
a commercial entity.

Anyone got ideas/experience of such services? The only one I've personally
used, and only minimally at that, is cvsdude.org. This is for closed source
hosting, has to be secure (for some reasonable value of "secure").
Recommendations?

Emlyn
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