Pure Internet Architecture Essential to Fast Deployment and Low Cost of
Ownership
NEEDHAM, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product development company(TM), today announced that
Windchill 7.0 will encompass the industry's broadest and most sophisticated
Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standards for product lifecycle
management (PLM) solutions. PTC is one of the first PLM vendors to support the
latest release of J2EE, version 1.4, including J2EE Connector Architecture
(JCA), Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and Java API for XML Messaging
(JAXM).
The standards-based open Windchill architecture enables manufacturers to
easily configure, deploy, scale and maintain the Windchill solution suite to
optimize product development across the digital product value chain of
departments, partners, suppliers and customers. The Windchill architecture, in
combination with PTC's "Create -- Collaborate -- Control" solutions, defines
the synergistic requirements necessary for a true product development system
to excel in the complexities of today's demanding business environments.
"Companies today recognize the importance of using Internet standards to
achieve competitive advantage from Product Lifecycle Information Management,"
said Joanne Friedman, vice president, Electronic Business Strategies, Meta
Group Inc. "As a result, PLM technology must provide a robust, scalable
product built on a solid technical and architectural foundation that support
standards to address this enterprise need."
Windchill's architecture is:
-- Integral -- consisting of a single data schema, business object and
process model, common business services and common user interface look-
and-feel.
-- Pure Internet -- written in Java with the broadest and most
sophisticated support of J2EE, Web services and Internet standards
deploying within existing Internet and security infrastructure.
-- Interoperable -- seamless exchange of product information across common
CAD systems, enterprise systems using commercial EAI vendors, Web
services and Microsoft .NET applications all using industry-standard
interfaces.
Windchill, the first, and only, enterprise-level PLM solution built from
the ground up using pure Internet technology and Java, has a history of
aggressive adoption of Java standards as they mature, such as: use of Java
1.2, 1.3, and now 1.4 libraries for superior performance, use of JNDI for
accessing all user information from corporate directories, JSP Tag Libraries
for more efficient JSP scripting, and now JCA for connectivity and JAXP and
JAXM for standards-based XML processing and messaging. It also supports other
J2EE standards such as Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Servlets, Java Database
Connectivity (JDBC), Java Message Service (JMS), Java Mail, Java Naming and
Directory Interface (JNDI), Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI), and Java
Script.
Windchill takes complete advantage of the revolution of the Internet and
the advent of Java as a platform neutral application development environment.
It is SunTone certified and acquired technologies have been fully integrated
at the database, business object model and user interface levels, including,
where necessary, being rewritten in Java.
Customers benefit from the Windchill native J2EE implementation with
superior modularity, usability, flexibility, scalability, performance, data
integrity, security, and interoperability with a host of external technologies
via the broadest support for standard Java interfaces.
"PTC is continuing its leadership with the aggressive adoption of proven,
native Java-based technology and use of the latest J2EE standards, such as the
forthcoming J2EE 1.4," said Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president, Sun
Software Group. "Customers can benefit from this standards-based architecture
with the knowledge that Windchill seamlessly integrates with their Internet
and J2EE IT infrastructure today and can react quickly to any future
technological advances."
"Windchill is the only 100% Java PLM solution," notes Jim Heppelmann, PTC
chief product officer and executive vice president of Software Solutions.
"Other PLM vendors claim to have J2EE applications, but in reality they are
either a mix of loosely integrated acquisitions or a Java shell on top of
older proprietary architectures, written in a mix of languages. Such
architectures can be complex, brittle, and difficult or impossible to
integrate and scale to enterprise levels. Windchill eliminates the need to
maintain both a J2EE architecture and a legacy architecture in parallel."
For more information about the Windchill integral, pure Internet, and
interoperable architecture, please view the "Why Architecture Matters for PLM"
white paper at http://www.ptc.com/go/pds/architecture/
About PTC
PTC develops, markets, and supports software solutions that help
manufacturers win with superior products. PTC is the world's largest software
company with a total commitment to product development and product lifecycle
management (PLM.) The company services more than 35,000 customers worldwide.
Further information on PTC is available at http://www.ptc.com/go/pr or call 1-
888-782-3776, ext. 901.
Except for the historical information contained herein, matters discussed
in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those projected. These include: the success of our initiatives to
facilitate our customer's understanding of the benefits of our PLM solutions,
including return on investment and value creation; our successful development
and integration of the technology necessary to offer an integrated Product
Development System that adequately responds to evolving customer requirements;
the success of our cost reduction initiatives; and the effects of a weakening
economy which may impact the overall demand for software and related services;
as well as other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in reports
filed by PTC with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the
Company's most recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.
PTC and its logo, Product First, The Product Development Company, Create
Collaborate Control, Simple Powerful Connected, Pro/ENGINEER, Wildfire,
Windchill, and all PTC product names and logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Parametric Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries in the
United States and in other countries.
Investor Contact Information Public Relations Contact Information
Meredith Mendola Joe Gavaghan
781-370-6151 781-370-5074
mmendola@ptc.com jgavaghan@ptc.com
SOURCE PTC
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http://www.ptc.com
CONTACT:
Investor, Meredith Mendola, +1-781-370-6151,
mmendola@ptc.com, or Public Relations, Joe Gavaghan,
+1-781-370-5074, jgavaghan@ptc.com, both of PTC
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