Has anyone else experienced the pain of trying to update a production installation from Windchill PDM Link 8 to version 9?
Having seen version 9 I am keen to do this as it has all the things that PTC removed from Intralink 3.x when they created version 8. I also want to do this myself and keep their grubby hands off our bank ballance.
I cannot find any instructions on how to move from version 8 to version 9 anywhere. it was never like this in the Intralink days when they gave you step by step instructions on how to move up a version. With this crap all you get is a solution installer disk which is great for moving up datecodes within version 9 but is no use whatsoever if you want to move up from version 8.
Not to be outdone I thought ok then while I wait an age for PTC to answer my questions or give me any straight answers I will have a go at installing version 9 from scratch only to find that you no longer get Oracle bundled with your PTC software. Version 9 requyires Oracle 10g so you now have to go to Oracle for this and so invoking Oracle license costs. Have PTC reduced the cost of Windchill accordingly? Have the hell as like.
Any help would be appreciated
Having seen version 9 I am keen to do this as it has all the things that PTC removed from Intralink 3.x when they created version 8. I also want to do this myself and keep their grubby hands off our bank ballance.
I cannot find any instructions on how to move from version 8 to version 9 anywhere. it was never like this in the Intralink days when they gave you step by step instructions on how to move up a version. With this crap all you get is a solution installer disk which is great for moving up datecodes within version 9 but is no use whatsoever if you want to move up from version 8.
Not to be outdone I thought ok then while I wait an age for PTC to answer my questions or give me any straight answers I will have a go at installing version 9 from scratch only to find that you no longer get Oracle bundled with your PTC software. Version 9 requyires Oracle 10g so you now have to go to Oracle for this and so invoking Oracle license costs. Have PTC reduced the cost of Windchill accordingly? Have the hell as like.
Any help would be appreciated