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Perforce is a commercial Revision Control (RC) system. It is developed by Perforce Software, Inc. and was founded in 1995 by Christopher Seiwald. The Perforce system is based on a client/server model with the server managing the collection of source versions in one or more depots. The server software runs on the Unix, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows operating systems.
The client side provides graphical and command line tools for a large number of operating systems. Also available is a suite of plugins that integrate with various programming IDEs and third party applications, such as XCode, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Alias Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Eclipse, emacs.
Other features of the system include support for reporting (i.e. notifying users when a file has changed), branching and merging, and defect tracking.
Current users
Perforce is used by some 3,600 organizations world wide, including companies such as Cisco Systems, IBM, Bank of America, EA, Pixar Studios, CCP Games, NVIDIA, Macromedia, Morgan Stanley,Google, SAP and Citrix Systems [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7036.
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"Perforce"