PPM 5.0 Ramp-up

Dear all,
My client wants to implement PPM 5.0.
When ramp-up ends ?
Is it on November 30 ?
Regards
Muly Zohar

Hi,
yes, the current plam is still to exit ramp-up on 30th of November, 2010.
You can find the current date also always in SAP Note 1377104 (FAQs - SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0).
Kind regards,
Florian

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Thanks very much for taking the time to post the info Florian. I will update this thread as well if I run into any new information.
Do we have any idea on SAP's direction for Product Definition? PD is still version 2.0 and I heard that PD functionality will be incorporated into PPM 5.0 which does make a lot of sense. I very briefly went through the notes and config doc in this post and did not get the impression that PPM has any idea and concept management capabilities.

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