Thursday, September 26, 2002

Product Management Software - Get it out of the door, right and fast ! The current issue of Business 2.0 (Oct '02) features *Product Life-cycle Management software. PTC (a Groove Partner) is mentioned in great detail. This is a challenging piece of software that brings collaboration across the various production functions (Champy's X-Engineering), cuts costs dramatically and lessens the time-to-market. The *PLM software segment outranked all other software categories - ERP, SCM, CRM & EBiz. _________________________________________ Open Source Business Model Metamorphosis The current issue of Fortune (09/30/02) has two of my favorite musicians on the cover and it also has an article on Why Business Loves Linux. It's free but only upto a point - it's very difficult to get tech support. It is envisaged that the big players could co-opt Linux by modifying it to suit their own hardware or software. This may derail the Linux evolution. I can see ORACLE having a Linux version fine tuned for their own database and application servers. It's a good thing that the profit motive is always there because you can have quality only when there is competition. 7:15:22 PM