..."PTC Creo 3.0 does not offer a new app for users, but a kind of app template for partners. "In the presentation of the Creo strategy, we have already announced that we will enable our partners to develop their own apps. This development environment will be supplied with Creo 3.0", says Campbell. You have to imagine this as an empty app with a user interface that can interpret Creo files and interact with Windchill, but otherwise does not include any functions. PTC will make this available to four or five selected partners and develop the first apps together with them, in order to check whether the template contains all of the required functions. The first partner apps shall be released with Creo 4.0. Afterwards, PTC will also open up access to the App Shop to other partners. It is still not clear when Creo 4.0 will be put into development. Campbell's primary objective is to first launch Creo 3.0. However it is certain that, in the future, Creo release cycles will be shorter."...
