I was working on site (actually, the same project where I met the PEBL UI guy, go figure) with an unrelated customer who was using Clearcase for their ghastly train-wreck of a mobile phone OS.
A noop build and flash would take 45 minutes. That was the minimum time that every build/test/debug cycle would take. Turns out that at least half of this was fetching all the libraries out of Clearcase over 100MB ethernet, three times.
Every few days an email would go round asking people to make sure that their antivirus software was up-to-date. Turns out this was because the Clearcase repositories were mounted as Windows volumes, and were mutable. So if a virus (and the place was riddled with them) tried to infect an executable it found there, the change would be automatically checked into their VCS.
Said mobile phone company eventually canned the project, the operating system, the staff, and (I think) the entire sodding *building* because it was all so awful.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
