The article covers "enterprise" scenarios with a convoluted writing style ("award-winning tools such as Perforce" means it has to be good). They think distributed means two sites. See http://i.cmpnet.com/ddj/images/article/2008/0807/080703santo... for the world they live in. We even get a new acronym: Distributed Software Development (DSD).
No mention of mercurial, git, darcs, or monotone to be found.
ddj: for when you need your content smashed into 1/4th of your window with small graphics and you miss being advertised to by random underlined words ("developer" obviously means "I want to buy a $5M sun server").