I work on what you might call a 'database IDE' and we have actually gone in the opposite direction, adding more features for offline development and maintaining

I work on what you might call a 'database IDE' and we have actually gone in the opposite direction, adding more features for offline development and maintaining state offline. We were pretty open either way but our users pulled us this way. Interestingly I think the enterprise may be more open to this remote environment thing, as long as it operates within their network.