Category: Product Lifecycle Management

While I applaud the journalists for getting this story, I have to ask what in the h*ll the VC’s were thinking? They are going to get hammered with every hair brained scheme ever conceived. Their motivations aside, I found this one of the more interesting articles from CNN in a while. After all who doesn’t…

.!. It’s not quite the replicators that we were promised in Star Trek, but I for one am planning on building one of these to help me build my flying car. On a serious note this is another step in the direction of social production.  As the “diminishing cost” trend that has been driving IT…

Thanks for the mention Ralph.  Geolus continues to be one the moves we’ve made in the past year that continues to excite me.  Every time I talk with a customer about it they (a) “get it” in about 5 minutes and (b) come up with at least 3 applications or scenarios that I never thought…

Rod has an interesting take on how the co-creation that artists strive for when producing a play or a film relates to enterprise IT projects. I think the same thing is true of products. The best ones are made with users not just for them. The question I have been batting around for the past…

Although Engadget editor Peter Rojas‘s site often talks about “gadget porn” when showing off the latest unboxing shots of the newest gadget or pics from every conceivable angle of some unreleased gizmo from a trade show, I think his latest venture with Dave Winer and Jason Calacanis may be the closest thing yet to true…

.!. Another post on WorldCAD Access that should be in the “Microsoft can do no right” category. There are a few things though that have been mangled in transmission to the writer by the Microsoft reality distortion field (aka Microsoft PR) so I thought I would set them straight. Microsoft is joyfully adding “open” CAD…

.!. A story over on CAD Inside caught my attention not because of the lawsuit that Autodesk is filing against the ODA, but rather because of the strategy that drove Autodesk to make the decision.  As Roopinder states: Autodesk has long stated that the DWG format was part of their “intellectual property” and so must…

How long will it be before there is a serious PLM Saas player (sorry Arena ;-))? The Ponderings of Woodrow: Workday: OK, you’ve had your day, now get back to work

It seems that 3DMojo doesn’t have much nice to say about mid-market focused products from enterprise PLM players: Designing software for small and medium businesses is not simply a matter or repackaging or re-licensing existing enterprise software. It’s a process that requires clean-sheet design, something you clearly aren’t going to get with CATIA Express. While…