Small companies need to be creative, share information, tell stories... I guess that's the goal of the post. If the Plastic SCM guys were Microsoft they would be on slashdot everyday, don't you think?
I mean, I can't understand why this guys are loosing their time building another sad IDE instead of getting mono integrated with Eclipse. I'd drop all MonoDevelop efforts tomorrow morning and put the team to work on the debugger, and then get it integrated with Eclipse or SlickEdit.
You can actually build everything from SlickEdit but you can't debug.
Mono, as a platform, is great but:
They must forget MonoDevelop
They must have a proper debugger *everywhere*
They must go *truly* multi-platform: I mean, official releases for all the linux distros plus MacOS X, and the BSDs, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and so on. While they *stick* to Linux... they're dead.
Everything else will come...
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.