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Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:41 AM

latest dogfood server stats

People often ask about our internal usage of the Team Foundation Server. On various forums I've posted our dogfood (our word for internal usage as in eat your own dogfood to make sure its ready before asking anyone else to...) statistics but realized
Posted by rickla | 5 Comments
Friday, April 22, 2005 7:34 PM

RickLa talking about VSTS on Channel9

Last week Robert Scoble dropped by my office to chat about the Team System for Channel9. We talked about the history, what the goals were, how we built it, and some of the pricing and licensing issues folks are seeing. It was fun to talk about this stuff.
Posted by rickla | 10 Comments
Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:19 PM

Microsoft and the SEI

About a month ago while I was in Europe, the SEI held its annual SEPG conference in Seattle. At the conference we announced the second MSF template to be shipped with VSTS: MSF for CMMI Process Improvement. The MS folks who attended came back with some
Posted by rickla | 4 Comments
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:03 AM

Get your SDM here...

The VS Team System Architect folks along with the Windows Server and Microsoft Systems Center folks have released a new workshop up on MSDN that is your portal for all information SDM (the System Definition Model). The SDM is an XML schema which is at
Posted by rickla | 1 Comments
Monday, April 18, 2005 2:38 PM

Single Server setup available with VSTS Beta 2 (get it now...)

This morning we announced the availability of Visual Studio Team System Beta 2. You can download the bits from MSDN here . With this release we are very nearly feature complete. We expect a few more features to get turned on in the next couple months
Posted by rickla | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:26 AM

A newbee mistake

I was reading some feedback on Erik Bowen's blog last night and I came across a few comments that suggested that I was being dishonest or hiding feedback that wasn't, well, glowing, about VSTS pricing. This was not my intention at all. As most of you
Posted by rickla | 0 Comments
 
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