What enhancements will you be making to your products? We have a demonstration project, called Jazz, that has been under way for 18 months, built by the same team that built Eclipse. It is focused on an integrated view of the life cycle of software and system development. It shows what you could do if you had a fully integrated life cycle. You could flow information from any particular change that you make in requirements or code construction or test cases. Using an underlying common view of development metadata, whenever a change is made, it flows through the entire life cycle, and anyone who needs to be notified is notified instantly. We're using that project as a design pattern for the evolution of our existing architecture.

When do you expect the Jazz capabilities to be added to other products? It will start to manifest benefits next year. We're trying to take the architecture we have built around a coherent view of collaboration and Web-centric clients and use that to unify all of our Web interfaces to all of our products. The Rational ClearCase [version control tool] and ClearQuest [defect-tracking tool] Web interfaces are being unified using this architecture.

The next time that you see us release [a version of Rational's suite of tools for development teams], we will be talking about how our experience with Jazz morphs even more capabilities in our products and the way we interface to construction and modeling tools. Every time we release something, we will talk about how we are moving closer to that [Jazz] vision.