Is a distcc style plugin for professional workgroups an idea whose time has come?
Hoff: Mac OS X has this baked into Xcode, as well as general grid computing capabilities.  This implemented with distcc and Bonjour (zeroconf), and Xgrid, respectively.Linux, too, can implement this.Operating systems as far back was Windows' arguable predecessor OpenVMS have distributed batch capabilities with clustering and with distributed batch queues, and you can toss build-related jobs into queues.  Nowhere near distcc, but it works.If nobody's already gotten traction with this distributed environment within the Visual tools over on Microsoft Windows, well, have at.  Microsoft and its related business decisions would centrally affect your future here.  Ignore, buy, trump, etc.