The biggest change is that it's an amazingly productive authoring environment compared to what's there today.

Part of this [donation] is that for developers, they can say that this is a widely [accepted] set of best practices anyway, so now we can use and extend it and third party developers can build on it as well.

First, it's a huge improvement from the existing RUP toolset, so it's just [much] better in terms of usability [and] authoring. It's a replacement for the current toolset.

Yes, it would help a lot, in terms of just making it a more user-friendly environment. It's all about trying to level the playing field for the downtown merchants and other shopping areas.

They were just awesome today. This meant more to them than anything, they put everything on the line, and were this close.

This means even if the environmental impact study finds that this project will be to the detriment of the environment, because there is political will and economic interest it will be done roughshod.