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. |
It is one of the things that shows Eclipse is entering a second generation. |
The plan sounds good but they have a lot of different tools. The question is how suitable the Web interface is to each. |
They did this because they're under significant competitive pressure. It's a direction where pretty much all of their competitors have gone. |
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. |
To put some kind of capstone to manage the portfolio on top of it, that can be pretty powerful. They're not the first to underestimate that opportunity, but they're doing a pretty good job of holding it together. |