On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 15:43, Arthur Cesar Oreana <aore...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everyone! >> >> Is there a paper, case study or website showing the SVN's market-share? >> Something like the numbers of users, companies, etc? >> >> I need to create a document with this information to oppose the enemy force >> (some proprietary solutions). =) > > If the number of people using SVN is a significant portion of the > selection criteria, then the wrong people are making the decision > about what software to use.
The number of users correlates highly with its maturity, its available community support, its lack of killer bugs, its cross-platform stability, and its ease of deployment. This is why Subversion's evolution as "CVS done right" was so effective: CVS was very popular among many shops, and it leveraged the popularity of CVS, even though CVS had many flaws (which Subversion attempted to address).
