d98rolb Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 I have just found your Plastic SCM with Google. Currently I am using Starteam 2008 R2 with SQL Server. Is it possible to somehow import/convert a project from Starteam to your Plastic SCM ? Regards Roland Bengtsson Ahola Transport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psantosl Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Hi Roland, We have direct importers for SVN, CVS and VSS, but certainly it can be done, specially considering StarmTeam uses SQL Server as a backend. We can do it on demand for your company if you're interested. But, there's always another option: export to SVN and then import from SVN to Plastic. Check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/220527/strategy-to-migrate-from-starteam-5-to-subversion for details about the Starteam-SVN migration. And here: http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/svn_importer_features.php#ST. Please let me know if it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d98rolb Posted April 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Thanks for the quick answer. I just investigate our option. We have upgraded to the latest Starteam solution but we are not so pleased with it. - GUI not so modern, unintuitive. - Latest client build in Java, a bit slower than old Win32 client. - Latest client also introduced some bugs. - Development seems not be so active from Borland. - Expensive! But a conversion seems to be a big risky project. - Buy converter tool from www.polarion.com and export to SVN. Starteam converter is only available in nightly build. - Buy Plastic SCM. - Then import SVN. Well, I don't really know... #-o Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psantosl Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Ok, I see. Well, all the problems you've should be fixed with Plastic... :-({|= Of course, you'd like to try with your own sources, right? Do you really need to buy from Polarion or is it free? We'll give you free licenses to test, so you don't need to buy Plastic to try, of course. And our support team will help you for free while running the import process and so on... Let's check about Polarion, and feel free to contact sales@codicesoftware.com to get in touch. I'll try to check about Polarion SVN importer asap. We didn't try to create an importer from StarTeam, but since it's getting more and more outdated (and unsupported, and noone seems to like it anymore), it's probably something we should care of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d98rolb Posted April 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Yes, I see now that the tool seems to be free. But there is not much info about Starteam in the tool. http://forums.polarion.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3083 Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psantosl Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Hi, If you contact Plastic SCM support team, they'll take a look into it, and then you can figure out whether you feel like migrating. You can also ask for free licenses for the eval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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