V6 vs. V5: What changed and What Not and What Changes Mean to You

I haven't had an opportunity to play with V6/PLM 2.0 hands-on, but from the information I gathered from COE, DS and LinkedIn CAA V5 InterFace group, here are a very roughly rundown of what has been changed, what has not:

1. No CATProduct or CATPart document anymore. everything is streamed in MaxtrixOne database.

2. A Java based data modeling tool will replace V5 DMC which is based on IBM's rational rose.

3. Because of Change 1, some APIs involved in product structure have to be replaced.

4. It seems that Visual Studio is still the tool for developing authoring solutions

5. DS may provide some migration tools to help you move your VPLM/V5 data ( database, V5 files, application based on V5) to V6 platform.

That's all