Rational ClearCase

IBM Product Page - http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearcase

Customer Page - http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearcase/support/index.html

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Rational ClearCase®, when combined with Rational ClearQuest®, a flexible defect and change tracking^? tool, is the market leading software configuration management solution that manages change and complexity. To software teams of all sizes, Rational ClearCase offers tools and processes you can implement today and tailor as you grow. Rational ClearCase provides a family of products that scale from small project workgroups to the distributed global enterprise, enabling you to:

Accelerate release cycles by supporting unlimited parallel development
Unify your change process across the software development life cycle
Scale from small teams to the enterprise without changing tools or processes

-- TWikiGuest^? - 07 Dec 2002

To me, the distinctive feature of ClearCase is that it is built on a virtual file system, allowing thus to access the data for reading without checking out, and furthermore to audit the use sessions (mostly builds for now): it supports (not with UCM) management on the road, not only in the garage.

-- MarcGirod - 17 Dec 2002

ClearCase by itself does not provide so much of a process driven tool environment. It is more a complete toolbox of SCM features that can be used to implement a process through triggers, rappers and command-scripts. A predefined process layer on top of ClearCase and (optionally) ClearQuest is implemented by Unified Change Management (UCM).

-- FrankSchophuizen^? - 31 Jan 2003

On the other hand, UCM is not something you have to buy seperately. In that sense, the product that you buy at one time can be a process-driven tool.

-- JohnMartin^? - 10 Nov 2003

Adding a link to the ClearCase page

-- DerekLau^? - 07 Feb 2005