License: $550 per license
Support: $100/year per license
Add'l costs: server plus Windows 2000 Server or later
Evolution is a client/server system using TCP/IP. It uses encryption and compression to improve the handling of files over the network. Evolution has a couple interesting features: Productions and Reflections. Productions are modular groupings of files that can be versioned as a unit. Reflections enable a newer version of a file to automatically be updated when the file it reflects is updated. Evolution also includes email notification, optional file locking, file sharing, virtual private workspaces, and promotion levels.