RhodeCode

Distributed version control systems are not exactly new. They have been around for the last 10 years, but they haven't yet penetrated Enterprise where Subversion and CVS still hold sway. There are some conceptual reasons for this. Mostly the concept of control, swiftly following by the concept of money.

Open source distributed systems are free, which flies in the face of enterprise profit making, and that has made them suspicious to businesses who need dedicated support, funded roadmaps, corporate regulatory compliance, and the fact that they are mostly coded by guys who take a certain pleasure in making gifs that paint the suit wearing procurement manager as slightly less than intelligent.

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In our quest to create the world's greatest development suite we think long and hard about how to make the best tools, offering the greatest value, with the least complexity possible, to our users. But we are all products of our environment, and our tools too are products of theirs. So, in an effort to support them, we investigated the best way to create the perfect environment for our tools, which in turn creates the best environment for our users. After taking that step back and analysing the contenders, one solution stood out above all others: Nix Package Manager.

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Society is driven by wants. The marketplace is driven by wants. Design is driven by wants. You are driven by wants. Each and every one of these wants creates a rich dependancy of needs, and because every want can only be satisfied if those underlying needs are met, every want can be broken down into a series of achievable steps.
At RhodeCode we want to create the best development tools in the world, and for us this generates an almost endless to-do list of needs that must be satisfied.

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No company would never even consider revealing the one secret that separates them from the competition. In enterprise software development the one and only differentiator is your source code. The power and integrity of your code is a reflection of the insight and intelligence your development teams bring to the marketplace. It is from this which all value, that your company creates, flows.

Exposing your source code is more than just handing the competition the keys to your car, it is handing them the means by which you pay for your car.

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The software development life cycle (SDLC) future is going to be dominated by highly flexible software packages that interact with each other and which can be mixed and matched to each users requirements. As projects become more complicated and require additional support and testing across multiple operating systems it is essential that your code is developed and tested on systems that are 100% platform independent.

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