Comparing Visual SourceSafe and Vault

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The other day, a reader emailed me some questions regarding the functional
differences between Microsoft Visual
SourceSafe and SourceGear Vault. I'd rather
talk about the awesome sailing I enjoyed this weekend on a friend's boat in the
lovely San Juan Islands but the
corporate Sirens are singing and I am now back on the clock.

Vault is a new source
control application from SourceGear, the company that produces SourceOffsite, the most popular remote
access solution for Visual SourceSafe databases.

Question:
Do
you know of some major differences between vault and sourceSafe that would lean
me towards using VSS?

Answer: I have not had an opportunity to evaluate
Vault personally. However, I have seen it discussed in the following
newsgroups and listservs: microsoft.public.vstudio.sourcesafe,
microsoft.public.vsnet.vss, and aspalliance.com’s product-vsnet@aspadvice.com.

Question:

I work remotely and
access to source safe code depositories via VSS are excrutiatingly slow. I
tried SourceOffSite and the access time was much better. Will the VSS
improve responsiveness when accessing files remotely? Answer: You can probably improve your performance somewhat by
tweaking a few VSS settings. For details, see https://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q123/4/73.asp (don't
skip the last paragraph...from what I understand, shadowing can
be especially expensive.) Second, SourceOffsite is often recommended as a
good third party solution for this situation. Finally, I often work remotely and
have observed that the fastest method by far is to connect to my
VSS client workstation on the corporate LAN via Remote Desktop
Connection (Start->Run->MSTSC) in Windows over a VPN. When connecting
via MSTSC, all of the heavy SourceSafe network traffic occurs on
the high speed LAN with only the screens being passed to me over my
[relatively] slow home connection.

Question:
What is the
history of VSS? Was it developed at MS or did MS buy the product from
another vendor?
Answer: SourceSafe
was acquired by Microsoft in 1994 from OneTree Software. Ted Roche discusses the
history of SourceSafe in his book, "Essential
SourceSafe."

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