{"id":311,"date":"2005-10-03T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=311"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:31:14","slug":"convergence-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Convergence Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posted a long, rambling entry on the SL Future Salon website based on the idea that for the most part software &#8211; and in my example I used UGS&#8217;s PLM software &#8211; was moving toward the kind of middle-ground accessibility that highend videocard technology had settled into. Now comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deskeng.com\/News\/Headlines\/UGS-Brings-Enterprise%11Level-PLM-to-Mid%11Sized-Manufacturers-20051003662.html\">news via Desktop Engineering<\/a> that UGS is bringing &#8220;enterprise-level PLM to mid-sized manufacturers&#8221;. From the DE posting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UGS Corp. (Plano, TX) has announced a new strategy focused on delivering mid-sized manufacturers enterprise-level PLM technology in an easy-to-deploy portfolio. The new UGS Velocity Series strategy comprises a portfolio of design, analysis, and PLM technologies that do not require extensive IT support for deployment and offer a low total cost of ownership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Well that was fast. Already time to expand the market I guess. And down they go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posted a long, rambling entry on the SL Future Salon website based on the idea that for the most part software &#8211; and in my example I used UGS&#8217;s PLM software &#8211; was moving toward the kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[163,162,149],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-cad","tag-plm","tag-productdevelopment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}