V5 to V6 migration and V6 customization

Suresh Attuluri at Dassault Systemes and Brian Baker at IBM kindly replied my questions posted on Linkedin group PLM Groups and CAA V5/V6 interFace Forum regarding tools availabe from DS to help customers migrate from V5 to V6.

here is the summary of their replies:

1. CATIA customization will still be done using CAA
2. CATIA automation can be done either using existing IDE such as VS or with V6 tools
3. V6 PLM customization/collaboration, which is basically MatrixOne based to my understanding, will be devloped on the new V6 tools as described in my previous blog.
4. "On migration, DS has developed multiple different tools to maintain co-existence and migration with SmarTeam, ENOVIA VPM V4, ENOVIA LCA V5, and Filebase for both V4 and V5 CATIA. The capabilities of each are varied, and all will be greatly enhanced in 2009x release (this December) and 2010 (1Q 2009). " ( from Brian Baker's email to me)
5. please feel free to provide your comments on this.