Comments on: Microsoft Futuristic PLM Commercials and Google’s reality

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:49:48 +0000

Matt, You asked a very interesting question. Companies are working on standards in CAD/PLM space for the last 20-30 years. So far, I cannot see visible results, except of few like IGES and partially STEP. My conclusion – to develop standards is very costly. Microsoft and Googles (as well as IBM, Oracle etc.) are working on platforms. Platform can pay off in case of mass adoption. The latest example is SharePoint. Mass adoption of SharePoint got results and many customers are interested how to move to this solution/platform. With regards to your last point – if you will spend a big bulks of $$$, you will be able to implement system that will return you all details about you laptop (picture). The question if you can afford such solution or not… Great discussion and welcome to plmtwine! Best, Oleg

By: Matt Bromley

Matt Bromley — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:32:47 +0000

Oleg – this is interesting, but got me thinking of something else. In this drive towards a more Utopian vision of product development – who can drive the real innovation. It all seems pretty fragmented today between multiple domains and sets of infrastructure. Is the next leap from the tool vendors, providing enhanced design tool capability, is it the interaction between tool vendors (domains) which has been inherently difficult because of the lack of standards? What role can companies like Microsoft & Google play? How do you see all these different design domains, simulations, systems analysis tools, etc., coming together. What are the pre-req steps to us building towards this environment? And when I can take a photo of my laptop and have it show all the system details, configurations, drawings, design data ?