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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOps

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Plastic was a version control system for facilitating branching, diffing and merging. It was acquired by Unity, and its features are part of Unity DevOps. The application is no longer available for sale.

    $6.95

    per user

    Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AVisual SourceSafe is a discontinued source control software offering, from Microsoft.N/A
    Pricing
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Cloud Edition
    $6.95
    per user
    Team Edition (on prem)
    $9.95
    per user
    Enterprise Edition
    $23.25
    per user
    Enterprise Edition (perpetual)
    $595.00
    per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details* Educational institutions receive a substantial discount on Plastic SCM licensing fees * Corporate/volume pricing is available * For more information, please contact sales at sales@codicesoftware.com
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    User Ratings
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Plastic SCM is well suited for the distributed development environment, where branching and merging can easily be handled. Its a good tool for version controlling, especially for a big team which is contributing to a big project simultaneously. Situation where Plastic SCM is not at all well suited are : If the project is smaller one and need to be handled by couple of people. So in that case setting up Plastic SCM and educating people to work on it is not at all efficient
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    Discontinued Products
    I would not recommend Visual SourceSafe to anyone out there as there are so many better, more modern solutions that do what it does and much more. Visual SourceSafe should be retired in most cases.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Version Control
    • Organizing Workflow
    • Transparency
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • At this point in its lifecycle there are not many things VSS does well
    • Its main strength would be its ability to be self contained on a local drive
    • It is a basic Code repository
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Interface
    • Documentation
    • Learning curve
    • Unity integration
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • The system stability could be improved. Often we get file corrupted errors.
    • The User Interface is not modern and not user-friendly.
    • Concurrent check-outs could be added, allowing more people to work on the same file at the same time.
    • Add conflict resolution, files comparison, blame file, features that any modern source control program should have.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
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    Discontinued Products
    The current status of Visual SourceSafe is not usable. There are many things that are just so out of the date that it should be retired and not looked at any longer. If you have an existing application that is stored in it, I'd consider migrating it to a modern tool.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    It's a Microsoft product so the customer support is great. The program has been around a long time so there are plenty of places on line to get assistance. Also almost any development shop you go to will have at least one developer who has used this product extensively in their career.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Plastic has best integration with unity - zero issues, native, straightforward. GitHub feels more stable but for smaller and or indie teams plastic s version control feels much more under control - you click, you feel safe. moreover, there is no need for extra tools such as gitkraken, gitlab, Sourcetree, fork, etc. it is really easy to develop games this way.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Easy to use
    • Cheap
    • Better than git for us
    • Artists love it
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • When we started using it, it allowed us to do source code versioning and store the code in a centralized location and not locally.
    • We are using it for very few projects with few developers that still maintain those applications and do not have time to merge the source code to Git.
    Incentivized
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