TeamWare
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TeamWare (later Forte TeamWare) is a is a source code revision control system made by Sun Microsystems and sold as part of the Sun Workshop development suite. 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 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 muliple files (features found in later version-control systems like Subversion 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 NFS.
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.
