A while back Ralph Grabowski’s upFront.eZine published a piece titled “ Just How Open is Aras with its Open-Source PLM ” which involved my response to another reader’s statement about Aras. To Ralph’s credit, he published a substantial portion of my response…

Recently, Graham McCall at AESSiS wrote a pretty good blog post titled “ Why Some People Don’t Like PLM ”. It’s a good re-post here and figured I’d include my own 2 cents as well. First, here’s Graham’s perspective: I thought it might be a good idea…

A discussion on Oleg’s blog Beyond PLM made me think about the motivations and incentives of open source as an approach for developing software and how it fits with associated business models. The post was titled “ PLM and Open Source Licenses ” and…

In a recent post his blog, PLM Think Tank , Oleg Shilovitsky wrote about the PLM Open Source Tradeoff .  I shared my thoughts on the piece and I am wondering what you think. Here’s what I think… “I’m old enough to remember when the safest decision in…