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EU competition regulators have approved IBM’s takeover of Swedish software company Telelogic. The European Commission said in a statement that, following an anti-trust investigation that kicked off last October, “the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition.” Big Blue had, through its wholly-owned …

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  1. Mark
    Gates Horns

    Anyone used Telelogic Synergy?

    It's a painful experience, clunky user interface, abysmal performance.

    It will suit IBM's suite of software nicely... I can't wait for the Synergy Lotus Notes integration.... :-(

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  2. SolidPig
    Unhappy

    Re: Telelogic Synergy

    Sure the interface was shit, and the performance was ropey as the repository got bigger, but I never EVER lost any source code in it during the 5 years i used it.

    Which is a fuck lot more than I can say for any of the other source control products I've used. MKS SI and Source Safe? Don't make me laugh.

    Thank the lord for Subversion and TortoiseSVN!!!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    Not used Synergy, but Tau

    Telelogic Tau is (allegedly) a UML tool.

    If I was forced to keep a top 10 of worst-software-I've-ever-used (and it would be incredibly difficult to keep it down to 10), this steaming miasma of software incompetence would be guaranteed a permanent place within.

    I'm lost for words (or more accurately, words that aren't libellous), but I can say that only IBM could possibly think this company is worth buying.

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  4. Nipsirc

    @Mark

    Even more suited to IBM, doesn't it run on Informix? It is *really* dire, I know that.

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  5. Senor Beavis
    Stop

    @ Mark

    Anyone who names a product "Synergy" deserves to be sacrificed to the grammar trolls on the decimation thread

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    What on earth were IBM thinking??

    Telelogic would have to pay ME to take their streaming pile of crap of their hands..

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Gotta love that UI

    Its definately up there with Lotus Notes in terms of the User Interface which only a Decrepid Paraplegic Thalidomide victim could have devised. I'll get my coat now and catch the Bus to hull....

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  8. Mark
    Gates Horns

    Telelogic feature request.

    You know when you exit Synergy, is asks if you REALLY want to exit.

    How about a dialog when you try and open Synergy, asking if you REALLY want to open it? Most times I will think about it for 10 nanoseconds, and click no...

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