Celebrate: Intralink 3.x will support Wildfire 4

Yes, it's public knowledge now: PTC will support Wildfire 4 with Intralink 3.4 next summer... I've seen the announcement mentioned on a public news group, so I'm not the first out with the news (although I heard it a couple of weeks ago on PTC/USER group, another good reason for getting involved).

Here's how I understand it:

• A new build of Intralink 3.4 will be released to support a future build of Wildfire 4
• PTC have listened to widespread customer opinions + petitions - thankfully
• The unicode issues will be resolved by new coding (3.4 upgrade will be more than a simple patch)
• 3.x support officially ends in June 08 - but you can purchase an extra year at 110% if you're keen
• The compatible build will be released before the support freeze (though the extra year gives the impression there'll be bugs to fix...)

In reality, all this does is buy you an extra year to sort your Pro/E data management for the future, but it will be a valuable year.  As I've suggested here before, I still don't think PDMLink is yet at a level to replace Intralink 3.x for direct Pro/E file management.  9.1 may be the tipping point, but that remains to be seen.  Any more I hear will appear here...