PLM Runs Amok!

I found this via WorldCadAccess
(http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2005/09/who_owns_data_i.html):

<<PLM is a 'joined-up' paradigm. It joins up many previously separate
and independent processes, disciplines, functions and applications - each of which, though addressing the same product, had its own vocabulary, rules, culture and language.>>

<<PLM extends and brings together previously separate activities such as
Computer Aided Design (CAD), PDM, Configuration Management, Group Technology, Sustainable Development, Product Portfolio Management (PPM), Product Recall, and Recycling.>>

Ralph Grabowski adds:

<<Menno Huijben describes the problem more fully in the latest issue of
PLM World: "Of course, data ownership isn't static. During the product lifecycle, ownership will be transferred from organization to organization, from process to process, and from system to system.">>

<<And he reminds us that the issue of data ownership is a difficult and
tedious concept, "not easily understood or accepted in the business world." Ultimately, a 'PLM system' is an IT architecture -- not CAD software -- that owns all product-related information.>>

<<Who is the owner, you or the software vendor?>>