We have been working on the ideas underlying EssUP for more than a year
now and we had already agreed to deliver EssUP on the Microsoft platform
(Visual Studio Team System). So naturally we were excited when IBM
announced the EPF project because we have similar goals.
Our intention is to contribute whatever we can to the EPF project to make
EssUp and BUP as similar as possible, as we believe this is what is best
for customers. The other EPF committers have been supportive of our ideas,
but of course we have more freedom with the Microsoft version because we
are developing that on our own.