Comment by woodrowbarlow

i know that some shops do nightly tape backups of the harddrive on the fileshare and consider that sufficient for version control. the theory is "developers don't have to learn a new tool and we will never lose more than one day's worth of work".

these shops don't understand the benefits version control offers when it comes to code review and maintenance patches on old versions of the software, or vendor-specific streams for your software.