Most surprising thing from this article is that svn’s reign was only two years. I vividly remember using it for much longer than that, but at the same time, adopting git almost as soon as it arrived.
It’s probably my memory playing tricks and svn was indeed a short term endeavor.
svn was absolutely in common use for a lot more than 2 years. I would totally believe that cvs was still in wider use though as there was sooo much legacy software hosted on it.
My experience was actually close to the one from the article. I used SVN for a year or two, moved to git and never looked back