Re: Arbortext Buy-Out

["CB Casper" <knowone -at- surfy -dot- net>]

Gene nails it with:
>> As part of a large-scale PLM solution, an app like 
Epic would be well suited to taking product data 
entered into a CAD or CADCAM app as XML and bringing 
it into various documents, such as factory mfg 
instructions, user and service docs, etc. >>

We spent major dollars having Arthur Anderson try to
integrate our CAD system with Interleaf. A huge
disappointment as they didn't know what tools 
Interleaf offered within itself (catalogs) and
developed a homegrown solution for getting the data
from the Unix based CAD system into our Unix Interleaf
which was also migrating to Windows.

What Gene mentioned was exactly what we needed, a 
way to get the engineering initiated data to the rest
of our manufacturing systems, without re-keying it
in, as we were doing.

CB - been there, wanted that and learned that
AA was useless, expensive, but useless

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