INFSO-RI-223782
Competitor Analysis An ETICS study
Adriano Rippa and Isabel Matranga Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. INFSO-RI-223782 Summary
• Chosen competitors and motivations
• Features: Comparing with the other tools
• Summary
2 INFSO-RI-223782 Chosen competitors and motivations
Similar Licenses (Free/OS) , more used, “more chatted” *** • CruiseControl • Hudson Features • Bamboo • AntHillPro (25% of the top 100 fortune companies use it) • Hudson + Sonar: it is developed as a Maven plug-in but it can be integrated into Hudson “Family” • Cruise (is the non free version of CruiseControl)
*** http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/10933_3803646_1 http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1086359.html
3 INFSO-RI-223782 Build Features Table
Ant Hill Cruise Hudson ETICS Cruise Bamboo Pro Control + Sonar Support for any X build tool Dependencies (interproject) X X X N/A X X Management Historical data X X X X X X
Distributed builds X X X X X X
Split builds X X X
Multiplatform X X X X X X Third party tools X DB
Multilanguage X X X
4 INFSO-RI-223782 Build Features Summary
Basic • Dependencies (interproject) Management • Historical data • Distributed builds • Multiplatform
Advanced • Multilanguage
Unique • Support for build tools • Split builds • Third party tools DB
5 INFSO-RI-223782 Security and Privacy Features Table
Ant Hill Cruise Hudson ETICS Cruise Bamboo Pro Control + Sonar
Role based X X X N/A X X
Username and XXXXX password
Certificate X
Public availability of X artefacts and code
6 INFSO-RI-223782 Security and Privacy Features Summary
Basic • Role based ( actions - limited visibility) • Username and password
Advanced
Unique • Public availability of artefacts and code • Certificate
7 INFSO-RI-223782 Plug-ins Features Table and Summary
Ant Hill Cruise Hudson ETICS Cruise Bamboo Pro Control + Sonar
Plug-ins X XX
API X XX
Basic
Advanced • Plug-ins • API
Unique
8 INFSO-RI-223782 Infrastructure Features Table and Summary
Ant Hill Cruise Hudson ETICS Cruise Bamboo Pro Control + Sonar
Infrastructure X
Cloud ready X
Basic
Must Have
Unique • Infrastructure • Cloud Ready
9 INFSO-RI-223782 User Support Features Table
Ant Hill Cruise Hudson ETICS Cruise Bamboo Pro Control + Sonar
User Support X X X N/A X X
Email X X X N/A X X
Payment Paymen Phone N/A license t
Forum/Mailing/ X X N/A X IRC
Payment 24/7 license
10 INFSO-RI-223782 User Support Features Summary
Basic • User Support • E-mail
Advanced • Phone • Forum/Mailing/IRC
Unique • 24/7
11 INFSO-RI-223782 Testing and Quality Features Table
Ant Hill Cruise Hudson ETICS Cruise Bamboo Pro Control + Sonar
Basic Testing X X N/A X XX
Advanced Testing X X
Quality Metrics X XX
Structured model X ***
Graphs X XXX
12 INFSO-RI-223782 Testing Quality Features Summary
Basic • Basic Testing
Advanced • Graphics • Quality Metrics
Unique • Structured Model • Advanced Testing
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13 INFSO-RI-223782 Business Model Features Table
Cruise Hudson ETICS Ant Hill Pro Cruise Bamboo Control + Sonar
Free license X X X
Proprietary License
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AntHillPro • Base price is $1250 USD per committer. This is a perpetual use license. • Annual maintenance is 22% of current licensing costs. • There is a 10% discount available for volume, beginning at 50 committers; this applies only to the license cost.
Cruise • Cruise is free for up to 2 agents. The 1-year license can be downloaded directly on the homesite. • For commercial licenses it is mandatory to take contacts with them. • Non-profits and open source projects can apply for a license to use Cruise with more than 2 agents for free. Besides the approval of this request is at discretion of the Cruise team. Annual renewals are provided on request.
15 INFSO-RI-223782 Business Model Features Specific Information
Bamboo
including 12 months maintenance of updates and support. Renewing maintenance is entirely optional • Bamboo is free for use by official non-profit organisations and charities (proof of non-profit status is required). • Community licenses are designed for organisations which are: • non-profit, non-government, non-academic, non-commercial, non-political and secular • Bamboo is free for any Open Source project to use
16 INFSO-RI-223782 Business Model Features Specific Information
Sonar • Open Source. • They charge people on commercial support and commercial extensions as follows:
The free support to communities is given for free through a mailing list. Specific commercial plugin for PLSQL: 2,000€ per instance of Sonar and per year. Hudson
Offers just commercial support 17 INFSO-RI-223782 Summary Basic Advanced Unique
Support for any X build tools
Split builds X
Third party tools X DB
Role based X
Username and X password Public X availability
Plug-ins X
Infrastructur X e
Cloud Ready X 18 INFSO-RI-223782 Summary
Basic Advanced Unique
Phone X Support Forum/Maili X ng/ Support
24/7 Support X
Graphics X
Quality Metrics X
Structured X Quality Model Advanced X Testing
19 INFSO-RI-223782 Q&A
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