Good policy to force all developers in a company to use the same IDE?

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Published on 2010-05-12T11:45:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 11:54 UTC
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In my organization they are thinking about rolling out Eclipse company wide but I prefer using another editor (UltraEdit).

I do not have any good arguments against this except subjective opinions that a developer should get to use whatever he/she wants as long as he's productive enough. This to make the developer a happy employee :-)

Do you guys think its a good policy to force all developers in the same company to use the same IDE? Would there be any technical (dis)advantages of this decision?

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