There is a very interesting discussion going on between two great Israeli blogers: Roy Osherove (a.k.a. ISerializable) and Oren Eini (better known as Ayende). It started with Roy’s post, that his company is looking for a developer experienced in VSTS. Then Oren pointed out why he would avoid Visual Studio Team System. In response Roy wrote a post explaining his choice of VSTS. It didn’t take long for Oren, to write a response, where he basically said, that all what Roy wrote above (and more) can be accomplished with other – free tools. As a result, Roy wrote a great post about open source tools. It’s good to read such discussions, where two pure professionals instead of yelling and swearing at each other bring to live some good arguments. I hope it will spread to other blogs, and initiate broader discussion.
[UPDATE]
As expected, Oren wrote (quite long) post to respond to last Roy’s post. It’s getting more and more interesting as they bring new arguments.
[UPDATE2]
As I expected, there are more blogers joining discussion (battle) between Roy and Oren. Check out Bil Simser’s comments and Oren’s response.
[UPDATE3]
It’s starting to look like tennis game: ball flying from one player to another and back. As so, now it was the time for Roy Osherove to speak, and so he did.
[UPDATE4]
Sam Gentile wrote excelent post about XP and being truly agile and commented Roy’s and Oren’s battle. Oren responded to both: Roy’s and Sam’s posts.