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When I first read the post here on ProductPoint retiring my first reaction was this was just someone mis-informed or starting a joke/rumor.
However, I now see that this is true.
My reaction now, WTF?
I was told just two weeks agowhile at PTC that development on ProductPoint is continuing to move forward.
Not even 2 years on the market, with the big push of being the solution for SMB as a Data Management option if they did not already have something, and ALREADY it is being retired?
I personally was interested in ProductPoint as possibly being a solution for getting off INTRALINK 3.4, and I am real glad that I did not jump the gun and switch earlier.
The announcement stated "
Who made the determination that I, and many of the customers, require a broader and deeper capability? Sorry, but NO ONE ASKED ME what I needed and/or wanted. Fact of the matter is, ProductPoint WAS ON THE TOP OF MY LIST of possible solutions for replacing ILINK 3, especially with the enhancements added in 2.0.
PTC, I DO NOT NEED OR WANT PDMLink, and honestly really do not want anything to do with Windchill in general.
I NEED AND WANT A CADD DATA MANAGEMENT TOOL. THAT IS IT!
I do not need or want all the (B.S.) bells and whistles that Windchill offers.
Sure this may be a good thing for large companies with 100 or 1000's of users, and if I was still working for a large company I too may consider Windchill offerings. However, I am not with that type company anymore.
I have a small user base, I am with a small company where my job is DESIGN and CADD & DATA MANAGEMENT SUPPORT.
There is no way that I can justify the price and/or time required for a Windchill product.
Windchill 10? Nope. Not going to happen.
Recently I have been so busy that migration keeps getting pushed back, and now more than I ever I am grateful for that cause most likely I would switched to ProductPoint, and I probally have to be justifying my job to management now.
I tell ya, WF3 and ILINK 3.4 are running great right now, even if they are not support anymore, and with this recent announcement I am now considering stopping the maintenance renewals since migration for me has just been pushed back even more (no sense in paying for something that is no longer supported and no viable options of moving forward).
Our Traction division was using BlueStar:
http://www.pdmtechnologygroup.com/files/BlueStar_Brochure_rev3.pdf
In Reply to Joel Nelson:
When I first read the post here on ProductPoint retiring my first reaction was this was just someone mis-informed or starting a joke/rumor.
However, I now see that this is true.
My reaction now, WTF?
I was told just two weeks agowhile at PTC that development on ProductPoint is continuing to move forward.
Not even 2 years on the market, with the big push of being the solution for SMB as a Data Management option if they did not already have something, and ALREADY it is being retired?
I personally was interested in ProductPoint as possibly being a solution for getting off INTRALINK 3.4, and I am real glad that I did not jump the gun and switch earlier.
The announcement stated "
Who made the determination that I, and many of the customers, require a broader and deeper capability? Sorry, but NO ONE ASKED ME what I needed and/or wanted. Fact of the matter is, ProductPoint WAS ON THE TOP OF MY LIST of possible solutions for replacing ILINK 3, especially with the enhancements added in 2.0.
PTC, I DO NOT NEED OR WANT PDMLink, and honestly really do not want anything to do with Windchill in general.
I NEED AND WANT A CADD DATA MANAGEMENT TOOL. THAT IS IT!
I do not need or want all the (B.S.) bells and whistles that Windchill offers.
Sure this may be a good thing for large companies with 100 or 1000's of users, and if I was still working for a large company I too may consider Windchill offerings. However, I am not with that type company anymore.
I have a small user base, I am with a small company where my job is DESIGN and CADD & DATA MANAGEMENT SUPPORT.
There is no way that I can justify the price and/or time required for a Windchill product.
Windchill 10? Nope. Not going to happen.
Recently I have been so busy that migration keeps getting pushed back, and now more than I ever I am grateful for that cause most likely I would switched to ProductPoint, and I probally have to be justifying my job to management now.
I tell ya, WF3 and ILINK 3.4 are running great right now, even if they are not support anymore, and with this recent announcement I am now considering stopping the maintenance renewals since migration for me has just been pushed back even more (no sense in paying for something that is no longer supported and no viable options of moving forward).
I really don't know what to say or think anymore.
I started with an Intralink 8.X implementation that went horribly wrong. It was too complext to install, maintain and deploy. I was then introduced to ProductPoint. I paid to switch all my licenses over to ProductPoint and though it would fit our need perfectly. I started the implementation process only to find that ProdutPoint 1.1 was not compatible with Sharepoint 2010 which my company runs.
Now I have to wait for ProductPoint 2.0 to FINALLY implement PDM at our company. Now I find that ProductPoint 2.0 is retired and I am back to were I started. I have been trying to implmenet a PTC PDM solution for the last 4 years with no success.
GRRRRRRRR.....
"Too many people walk around like Clark Kent, because they don't realize they can Fly like Superman"
I see the threat coming from the large companies that would see value in migrating to productpoint.
It could happen. There is always the large company that doesn't have the need for a large, bloated data management system.
In Reply to Anthony DelNegro, P.E.:
Ron,
The important point missed by PTC is that they are NOT threatening the
Windchill product at these small 1-10 customer businesses. We will
never be able to afford Windchill so at this point we will only look
elsewhere for a solution.
T