Re: IDE/Rational Apex experiences

["bklungle" <bklungle@ix.netcom.com>]

At a certain large AeroSpace company, use of Rational Apex was mandated by
management. There are 27 programmers trying to develop a very large ground
based processing system using C and C++. When 4 users log onto the Rational
Apex system, the response time on the network increases to around 20
minutes. The system HAS been optimized about as much as the Gurus know how.
At this time, there is a pending uprising within the working staff to
eliminate it. Instead of a productivity improvement, it has brought
development to a standstill. Almost everyone would rather go back to SCCS
than continue with Apex.
One users experience over the past 11 months.

cheers...bob

Damian O'Neill wrote in message ...
>Hi,
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>I'm trying to collect any thoughts, comments, suggestions or experiences
that people have had in moving from a non-integrated development
environment, e.g. vi for text editting, SCCS for CM, a third party
compiler/debugger etc. to an integrated development environment,
specifically Rational Apex supporting Ada95 and C++ in mid to large sized
projects. What problems did you have, were there productivity improvements,
was it better or worse than what you had, what are the good points, what are
the bad points
>?
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>Also, if you could suggest any other appropriate newsgroups it would be
much appreciated.
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>Thanks in anticipation,
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>Damian
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