Re:CVS as the standard? (Score 1)

I don't claim to be an expert on this subject by any means, but I'll share my personal experience with VSS. I work in a remote development office of a Seattle company (not M$) on the east coast. Our transfer rate is usually ~60KB/s. When I start the VSS client it takes > 1 minute to simply display the source tree. All other procedures (eg. expanding a branch, or right-clicking on anything) take > 10 seconds to respond. My best guess is that there's a ton of small communications between the VSS client and server that make using it over a network with any kind of latency just plain suck. And then there's all the crap it embeds in your VC++ project files...well I won't get into it, just stick with CVS.