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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mercurial

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AMercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It handles projects of any size and boasts an easy and intuitive interface. Mercurial handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and can enhance its functionality with extensions.N/A

    SourceForge

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ASourceForge is a B2B software discovery platform, featuring 4000+ categories in its comparison engine that potential buyers can use to compare software by user reviews, features, pricing, integrations, operating system, and deployment.N/A
    Pricing
    MercurialSourceForge
    Editions & Modules
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    MercurialSourceForge
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    MercurialSourceForge
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    Open Source
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    SourceForge
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    MercurialSourceForge
    Small Businesses
    GitHub
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Perforce P4
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MercurialSourceForge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MercurialSourceForge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    If you generally think that to develop software you have to choose one repository, then in my opinion you have to choose between Mercurial and Git, there is not other solution. Mercurial also has a good merge tool which i can recommend. This gives you the flexibility to push just the "part of the feature", and is much better suited in the case where the "part of feature" and some other "part of the feature" both contain changes to the same file.
    Incentivized
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    SourceForge
    I recommend SourceForge to anyone or business that needs both commercial and open source software. This platform has a wide variety of software with many categories that allow easy search for any project, in addition to the fact that searches can be done separately (commercial and open source software) so as not to have mixed results which go with different purpose. In addition to the fact that the community of this platform is quite active and that there are always times to discover new projects that can be useful for a company or individual person.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Branch
    • Distributed architecture
    • Stable
    • Platform independent
    Incentivized
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    SourceForge
    • Commercial software and FOSS projects are available.
    • FOSS projects have advanced profiles such as software hosting for download as well as download metrics. As well as the released versions.
    • Commercial software profiles show detailed features, what it offers, price, frequently asked questions and a vast amount of user reviews.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Integration with visual studio
    • More integrated tools
    • When I install Mercurial I always have to do a hard restart of my computer.
    Incentivized
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    SourceForge
    • The overall design that SourceForge has really leaves a lot to be desired, although the entire platform works perfectly, I think that the design should be much more attractive.
    • There is currently no feature to save your progress on a review you are writing, so if you are writing a review and the browser is closed for some reason, all progress of the written review will be lost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
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    SourceForge
    Souceforge was very straightforward and easy to manage. The leads worked for us so there is not a lot else to say about why I'd use it again. This isn't some complicated software product, it is a simple inbound marketing channel that is meant to generate leads and help us with brand awareness and it did exactly that.
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    SourceForge
    SourceForge is super easy to use and very intuitive. And their support team and campaign managers help whenever we need it. Using SourceForge as a user is easy, and administrating a business software listing is easy as well. They also have great documentation.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
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    SourceForge
    We've never had any issues or downtime with SourceForge. Since we've been a user, the platform has never been down. Or at least never that I've noticed.
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    Performance
    Open Source
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    SourceForge
    SourceForge loads extremely quickly whether you're using the front end or administrating your product listing on the back end. All pages are snappy to load--no issues with page speed whatsoever.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
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    SourceForge
    I hardly ever use the support on SourceForge, as I have not needed it. Their product works well for me. One time I had to email them and they got back to me the same day, but that's my only experience.
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    Online Training
    Open Source
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    SourceForge
    When we first signed up, they pair you with a campaign manager who trained us on how to use the product properly. The product is simple so the training was only about 30 minutes and after that we understood all the features and how to make the most of it. Most of the work came with making a custom landing page and building a follow up process for our sales team.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    SourceForge
    We have used this service mainly to read explicit opinions that influenced the decision-making when implementing new software for my company
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    When we chose Mercurial it was more popular from perspectives than Git and we have too many problems with the Microsoft team foundation solution. We also want to move from a centralized version of source control to a distributed one. We also were working more and more via the Internet with our source control so distributed version was only solution.
    Incentivized
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    SourceForge
    G2 has a larger commitment time upfront and for a more expensive rate, which wasn't the best option for our team as we were just exploring the resources that existed out there at the time. We preferred Sourceforge as well due to its subscription service, making it easier to commit from the start.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Open Source
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    SourceForge
    SourceForge has been plenty scalable for us. Our marketing department is able to edit listings and our executives can also log in to the platform if need be for leads and reporting information. SourceForge offers multiple user access and role permissions, so it's pretty scalable and easy to use for our entire team.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Improve time in merging
    • Branching enables us to keep separate version per customer
    • Good tool for programmers is sometimes a reason to stay
    Incentivized
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    SourceForge
    • It allowed us to learn more about the features and functions of some software that we currently use.
    • It allowed me to improve my decision-making for the software we use in the project area.
    • It helped us to replace several programs that were used in our company. We made several replacements, for much more optimal alternatives.
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