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

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

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

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.

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.