{"id":1121,"date":"2006-12-14T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:04:58","slug":"ibm-the-ebo-and-some-plm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"IBM: The EBO and Some PLM"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my earlier post (which was mostly about the recent Shirky entry in Valleywag – reLink<\/a>) I suspect many of you didn’t catch my link to the C|Net article discussing IBM’s new EBO launch (EBO stands for “emerging business opportunity”). You might want to go and check that out. What’s doubly interesting to me now is something I caught over on the WorldCAD Access site yesterday. From the post titled “IBM Expands Presence in PLM” (Link)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

IBM has formed a Product Development Integration Framework (PDIF), calling it “the most important announcement that IBM has ever made in the PLM space.”<\/p>\n

But it’s not just all about IBM. They got eight PLM vendors to agree to write PDIF applications and connectors:
\n
\n* PTC
\n* UGS
\n* Geometric Software Solutions
\n* MSC Software
\n* Agile Software
\n* Centric Software
\n* Engineous Software
\n* PROSTEP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coincidental timing? I don’t think so. And as WorldCAD points out, Dassault is absent from that list. Given my post last week – “Dassault\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Common 3D Environment” (reLink<\/a>) – is that really a surprise?<\/p>\n

Looks to me like we have the beginnings of the next standards war – this time over PLM interoperability. Only now the two prime players, Microsoft and IBM, are also involved in consumer-level virtual worlds.<\/p>\n

Slowly, slowly, things are coming together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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