PDMWorks Workgroup-Is it Dead?

[macduff]

Hi,
I did a quick review of "What's New" in 2010 and and notice hardly nothing for Workgroup. I believe 2 items. Is Workgroup a dead piece SW software? I did find a lot of items for Enterprise.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 3.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I don't believe SW has killed Workgroup, but they do appear to be causing atrophy of the product in favour of Enterprise.

 

[NL8]

I wouldn't be surprised if they kill support for it in the next two releases. Wonder what that will do to all of us Workgroup users. Probably trap us in a version of software.

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 09 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[macduff]

SW should revamp Workgroup and call it Enterprise Lite and flow down some of the basics enhancements.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 3.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[NL8]

AS if it's not already enough of a tease of what we could be doing if our companies would just spend some money.

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 09 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[NomLaser]

I thought that SW already announced that they were phasing out Workgroups? At least that what I have been hearing from my VAR for quite some time.

 

[macduff]

can you send a link where this announcement was made?

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 3.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[PDMAdmin]

I hope PDM Workgroup isn't dead. A small company like mine doesn't have the money or the need for PDM Enterprise.

 

[fcsuper]

Scalability is important, but they don't need to worry about it because they can cater to the big guys. However, I think they are in trouble with Enterprise over the long run. Just look at the solidworks gold partnets, and one can see a trend.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
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