But have no real say in trying to get them to investigate alternatives. It came with the few copies of Visual Studio that they own, so they're using what they already paid for. I've also mentioned to the team leader/contractor about the mulitple articles I've read about VSS going down the black hole, but he just shrugs his shoulders and says "we have backup tapes".

This from a place that STILL has the ghost of Nimda/Code Red floating around a few servers as of yesterday. They keep saying that Norton has killed it, but I keep finding .EML and .NWS files on a few of the servers I use daily.

I keep current copies of all my projects locally, and bring home files on floppy to keep my CD archive current.