Migrate from ClearCase to SVN/Mercurial

Question

At work, we're using ClearCase right now. However, there's a lot of overhead required, especially when someone does something stupid (like erase a view with multiple reserved check-outs on the trunk...). Since we're trying to lower our overhead and be as lightweight as possible, we've through about the possibility of ditching CC and going for something lighter (Subversion or Mercurial), seeing as how we don't use 90% of CC's features anyway. Does this sound reasonable or will we be trading our Ferrari in for a station wagon?

Answer 1

From my experience, ClearCase has indeed a lot of overhead and we managed greatly with SVN.

I vote, "downgrade" (actually its an UPGRADE). ;)