Why is Harvest being purchased at all? [closed]

Question

Does your work environment use Harvest SCM? I've used this now at two different locations and find it appalling. In one situation I wrote a conversion script so I could use CVS locally and then daily import changes to the Harvest system while I was sleeping. The corp was fanatic about using Harvest, despite 80% of the programmers crying for something different. It was needlessly complicated, slow and heavy. It is now a job requirement for me that Harvest is not in use where I work.

Has anyone else used Harvest before? What's your experience? As bad as mine? Did you employ other, different workarounds? Why is this product still purchased today?

Answer 1

I had the benefit of using Harvest at a bank and you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, backwards triple-forking undocumented check-in gauntlets that require 15 steps to make one simple change. Nevermind that they weren't even using branching. This is an evil tool don't let it get you in its clutches.

Answer 2

Chances are, your company has some sort of contract with CA - are you using a lot of other CA software in-house?

Edit: Guess so!