eap vs dbms

[Maggie]

Hello
Up until now I have been using EA as a single user and have stored my models in an eap file.
My team is now set to grow to 3-4 users and I am wondering whether we should continue using eap files or should opt for a DBMS repository.
We have the corporate version of EA and use source control.

If anyone has any advice for me I would be grateful

Thanks

Maggie

[RobCDeJong]

You can work on the same EAP with multiple persons but this is not a scalable. Your team size (3-4 users) should however not have any problems.
 
This whitepaper gives a good overview of the posibilities:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/WhitePapers/Version_Control.pdf

My conclusion: if you have a team at one single location, a dbms is preferred.

Cheers,
Rob

[Sunshine]

The EAP file is really just an MS Access Database so some kind of rough rules of thumb are go to a DBMS such as SQL Server or Oracle if
1) the EAP file exceeds 100MB
2) the number of concurrent users exceeds 7

These are rough figures so take them with a grain of salt.  
But you get the idea and order of magnitude  

Hope that helps