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I’m happy to announce that SCM Anywhere Standalone 2.2 is released today!  SCM Anywhere Hosted 2.2 is also going to release on August 1. Stay tuned.  :-)

Since SCM Anywhere was launched, there have been many customers asking whether there is a web front for people like external users, test team members to log issues.  In response to the customer requests, we add an issue tracking web client to SCM Anywhere in this version so that users can report and track issues via web browsers conveniently.

Besides the addition of web client, the new version includes better support for Visual Studio 2010 and enhanced SCM Anywhere VSPackage (More info).

I’m putting the download links here. You can have a try if interested.

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I’m pleased to announce that both SourceAnywhere Standalone 2.3.1 and SourceAnywhere Hosted 2.3.1 are released today.

 
During the past months, we received quite a few feedbacks regarding our VSS Import Tool. Knowing how important the history of source code in VSS and easy migration to SourceAnywhere means to our customers, we decided to improve the VSS Import Tool to better serve our users.

After several weeks’ effort, we finally worked out an internal version which impresses one user, “I’m very pleased by great acceleration of importing (from 10 days to 8 hours)” WOW, Great Job! Thanks to our customers and team members.

I’m listing the main improvements of VSS Import Tool here (click here to learn more):

• Greatly improved the performance by introducing multi-threading technology.
• Enabled users work normally while import is in the process. Users are able to access/edit the data once the latest versions of files/projects have been imported.
• Added support of importing the data from the error point if the process fails.
• Optimized the import of Label.
• Optimized the project selection. Refreshing the projects is much faster now.

In addition, MSSCCI Plug-in boosts the performance by up to 30%~50%. According to the data provided by our test team, it now takes less than 20 sec to open a large project from source control through uniPaaS, compared to 1~2 minutes in version 2.3 (build 30656 of hosted edition).

Considering you may be interested in experiencing these exciting improvements by yourselves, I put the download links here:

SourceAnywhere Hosted: Signup
SourceAnywhere Standalone: Download, Upgrade

Hi Everyone,

Happy new year.

Wish you and your family all the best in 2010.

Kevin Gao

Dynamic Web TWAIN is an ActiveX control and optimized for web applications. Dynamic Web TWAIN has been very popular. It is widely used in government, health care, insurance, policing and many other industries.

We are releasing a new TWAIN component, Dynamsoft .NET TWAIN, which is developed in C# and uses managed code. We are doing the release test of Dynamsoft .NET TWAIN and expecting to release it in the coming months.

Stay tuned.

As the architect of SourceAnywhere for VSS, I was asked by many users about the performance of SourceAnywhere for VSS compared with other products.

Recently, I did the test. Now I am posting the result here with the hope that it can save your time evaluating different SourceSafe remote access tools. I mainly focus on the features and remote-access performance comparison.

Below is the result:

Feature Comparison

Features		SourceOffSite
Performance Features
Data compression
Client/Server architecture
Cache Server
Delta Transfer
Multithread file transfer
Security Features
Client/Server Architecture
Blowfish encryption
128 SSL
Password policy
Independent VSS database access control
IDE Integration
Visual Studio 6/2003/2005/2008
SQL Server 2005
Eclipse Plug-in
Dreamweaver
Cross Platform
Windows
Linux
Mac
Solaris
AIX
SCO
Any Java compatible platform

Performance Test

Result: (Unit: second)

Test Environment:
There are 3 machines used in the test:

Server : CPU Intel P4 2.66G, 256M RAM, Win 2003 Std sp1; SourceAnywhere for VSS Server 5.3.1; SourceOffSite Server 4.2

Client: CPU Intel P4 3.0G, 512M RAM, 160GB 5400RPM HD, Win XP sp2; SourceAnywhere for VSS Server 5.3.1; SourceOffSite Client 4.2

Cache server: CPU Intel Celeron 2.66G, 512M RAM, 160GB 5400RPM HD, Win2003 Std SP1; SourceAnywhere for VSS Cache Server 5.3.1

Broadband connection is used between the client and server machine.

The cache server and client are on the same LAN, which connects to the server through office ADSL.

Test Software:

SourceAnywhere for VSS 5.4, SourceAnywhere for VSS 5.4 Cache Server 5.4, SourceAnywhere for VSS Client 5.4.

SourceOffSite Server 4.2, SourceOffSite Client 4.2.

Test Data:

1. A project with 1,500 files; Total size is 17.1 MB.
2. 1,000 changed files (used for check-in).
3. Server and Client machines are restarted before each test.

I attached the test data I used here. You can download it and do the test in your own environment if you like.

Test method:

Every operation is carried out 5 times. The highest and lowest results are eliminated. The average value is calculated.