Star Team Views

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FOR THE RECORD: Stephen Strasburg: Bill Plaschke's July 4 Sports column suggesting that the Washington Nationals' rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg should be named to the All-Star team said no American League hitter has ever seen him. Strasburg has faced three AL teams this season and has a 1-1 record with one no-decision in those games: the Cleveland Indians (a 9-4 win), the Chicago White Sox (no decision) and the Kansas City Royals (a 1-0 loss). —

StarTeam is a revision control system useful in software development, especially when the project involve more than one team and they are distributed in different locations. StarTeam is a SCM and SDLC software application, created by Starbase Corporation, acquired by Borland in January 2003[1]. The application is client-server, backed by a relational database that retains all changes made to a project during its evolution as well as the project requirements, task assignments, threaded discussions and bug tracking. Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database are supported database servers.[2]

StarTeam supports branching and three-way merging, difference analysis, advanced user access and security management, checkpoints, end user and administrator auditing, view and revision labels, promotion states and customization features. The server supports remote use and strong encryption for remote connections. StarTeam allows live backups while the server is in active use and includes an optional publish/subscribe event system called StarTeam MPX to enhance scalability.

StarTeam includes a number of clients, including a web client, a cross-platform Java client, a command line interface and integrations for popular Integrated development environments such as Borland Delphi, Borland JBuilder and Eclipse. StarTeam includes several powerful APIs for platforms including COM, Java, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It also provides an SCC compliant API for integration with IDEs that offer integrated revision control features as well as other applications such as Mercury Interactive's TestDirector and Telelogic DOORS.