TeamWare

TeamWare (later Forte TeamWare, then Forte Code Management Software) is a source code revision control system made by Sun Microsystems. As per Sun s web site, it is only available in the Forte Developer 6 update 2 product line and is not being offered in the Sun ONE Studio 7 release. This information is taken from http://www.sun.com/software/sundev/previous/teamware/.

TeamWare s largest deployment is inside Sun itself, where (bar a few exceptions) it is the only VCS used. TeamWare is used to manage Sun s largest source trees, including those for the Solaris operating system and the Java programming language system.

TeamWare features a number of advanced features not found in earlier version control systems like RCS and CVS. In particular it features a sophisticated heirarchy of source repositories, and allows atomic updates of multiple files (features found in later version-control systems like Subversion (software) and Perforce). TeamWare is implemented as a layer over the older SCCS system, which is used to track changes to individual files. TeamWare works only by a system of files accessed by client programs (interacting without a server) and most distributed users of a repository access it by means of a mounted networked filesystem such as Network File System.

During his tenure at Sun, Larry McVoy was the architectual lead on TeamWare. The BitKeeper version control system, also designed by McVoy, shares a number of design concepts with the earlier TeamWare.