It probably makes financial sense to let IBM manage your product data management upgrade to Release 8.0 for you. IBM's support of Windchill PDMLink® is designed to help mitigate product design costs and risks.
How you could benefit from our PDMLink application upgrade services:
Pool of experts available 24x7
Avoid hardware investment, we can host on our systems
IBM has experience with both large and small projects
Avoid major downtime
Reduce need to train or hire in-house resources for new release
Development environment (sandbox) available on quick, short-term basis