It is one of the things that shows Eclipse is entering a second generation.

As the source of version history truth, the SCM system is the nexus of any traceability effort.

I heard it first from Mercury. They popularized IT governance, at least for development organizations.

Those vendors have had a feature that Rational is missing and that feature is their main selling point. What [IBM wants] to be able to do is give you a place to go to get access to the data and all the tools.

They did this because they're under significant competitive pressure. It's a direction where pretty much all of their competitors have gone.

The plan sounds good but they have a lot of different tools. The question is how suitable the Web interface is to each.