Re: ERwin vs. Visio

Glad to see your evaluation was similar to mine ... no reason to spend the $ for 4.0.

Daniel Morgan

Marc Blum wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:59:15 GMT, Daniel Morgan
> <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:
>
> >The ERWin I normally use is reasonably old, 3.5.2 though I have worked with
> >4.x and found no significant advantages for what I do with it ... generally
> >make pretty pictures to display at meetings.
> >
> >Daniel Morgan
> >
>
> Actually I'm working with ERwin 4.0 in several projects. Sorrily they
> introduced new bugs, that didn't happen in 3.5.2. So I had a lot of
> mail traffic with CA support. Since CA swallowed Platinum, development
> of the tool seems to have slowed down...
>
> ERwin 4.0 has more capabilities to make pretty pictures than 3.5.2, so
> I would go with the newer version. On the other side, 4.0 doesn't
> support many 8.1 and even 8.0 features (IOTs, compressed indexes,
> deferrable constraints etc.).
>
> What I really appreciate about the tool are it reverse engineering and
> script generating capabilities.
>
> regards
> Marc Blum
> mailto:marc_at_marcblum.de
> http://www.marcblum.de
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 16:11:04 CDT