Express Computer, an IT business weekly publication, just published an article about component manufacturers that have driven product innovation through PLM, including a deployment of Dassault Systemès and SQL Server. Akhtar Pasha wrote "According to [Vivek Marwaha, Marketing Director, Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software India Pvt. Ltd.], earlier the TCO in PLM was high because it worked well only with the Oracle database. . . . Today customers can use SQL Server for engineering, which has low TCO on PLM systems."

Read the whole article at http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20100315/coverstory01.shtml.