PTC's Windchill Pure Internet Architecture Expands Support for Commercial Application Servers

Provides Flexibility, Choice and Reduced Deployment Risk for PLM customers

NEEDHAM, Mass., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product development company(TM), today announced that release Windchill
7. 0 will provide expanded support for commercial application servers supporting J2EE standards, including SunOne Application Server, IBM WebSphere and open source Apache/ Tomcat/ JBoss.

Windchill is an integral suite of modular solutions powered by a comprehensive set of business services leveraging a common business object and process model. These services are hosted within Windchill's pure Internet architecture consisting of a secure, pure J2EE standards-based framework that facilitates easy deployment and seamless interoperability with other desktop and enterprise systems.

The J2EE application server certification program ensures that any J2EE- compliant application will run on any J2EE-compliant application server. This provides customers with flexibility, choice, and risk mitigation in their selection of industry-standard IT computing infrastructure. It also eliminates wasteful overhead expense and facilitates growth and expansion.

"The maturation of the J2EE standard and the application server market now gives customers confidence that they can select Windchill and not be locked into any particular vendor's infrastructure stack. Windchill continues to deliver a pure, open, standards-based foundation for PLM technology," notes Jim Heppelmann, PTC executive vice president and chief product officer.

While many PLM vendors claim to have J2EE application suites, manufacturers should be careful to examine the history and reality of the multiple architectures being offered. Many PLM application suites are the result of a mix of loosely integrated acquisitions or a thin Java shell on top of older proprietary architectures written in a mix of languages. Such complicated architectures introduce scalability, performance and availability concerns as redundant infrastructure layers complicate the ability of components to scale well together to enterprise levels. Only a pure, native Java architecture can fully utilize the performance, scalability and availability benefits of commercial application services and deliver customers flexibility, faster time-to-deployment, and the elimination of redundant overhead costs.

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. The company services more than 35,000 customers worldwide. 

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