Final_FINAL_v7.docx is not a version control strategy

The Register and LucidLink are hosting a dinner for senior technology, infrastructure and data leaders at the Covent Garden Hotel on Tuesday 24 November. Joe Fay of The Register is in the chair. The subject is one most of them will know from their own shop, where the same file lives in several places at once and nobody is quite sure which copy is current.Most organisations have a folder that proves it. There's a file called final, another called final2, and then the one people are actually using, which somebody emailed to a contractor last Thursday.It's mildly funny until two people spend a week editing different copies and one of them loses the argument. Meanwhile the storage bill picks up another copy of everything, and each team that...

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