Huge Discounts on Cruise from Thoughtworks
• Julian Simpson
ThoughtWorks Studios released version 1.3 of Cruise, their Continuous Integration product last week. You can get a huge discount on it via this blog. (keep reading for more detail)
I'll be doing a more formal review and perhaps a less formal interview with some of the ThoughtWorks Studios guys in London. In the meantime, how about a discount? When I visited ThoughtWorks recently I asked them what they would do for readers of the blog. I was expecting to get an offer of some swag to give away (every ThoughtWorks office has a stash of swag). I even asked for some copies of the ThoughtWorks Anthology to give away. But they came back with a 35% discount for Cruise Professional. If you want to get a huge discount on Cruise, you need to send an email to studios@thoughtworks.com with the promotional code TWSBD on the subject line. Do it now, because this promotion is limited to two weeks. You can download an evaluation copy of Cruise here. If you've contacted them with the promotional code, you'll be eligible to buy a copy of Cruise Professional at 35% off of list price - even after the two week period is over. I'm very happy to negotiate a deal for readers of this blog. Not every product will be a good fit for your organisation, and I'd rather shut this blog down than encourage people to buy software that wasn't helping them - we see too much bad software every day. Having said that, some of the features of Cruise are helpful. What I like is the artifact repository and the deployment pipeline. We all know that deployment to a test environment should be at the touch of a button. Cruise allows you to do this by tracking all the states through to production. If you buy Cruise Professional you can assign rights to the stages so that your PM can't kick off a production deployment. Useful. You can also test builds on multiple platforms, and dynamically distribute work across the build grid. In general I think the approach is pretty mature, and ThoughtWorks Studios are really gunning for the "last mile" of development - where investment in automation is rare, and can have a great return. Notes and conflicts of interest: