Re: ERWin vs Oracle Designer

From: David Van Zandt <dvanzandt_at_iquest.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 20:55:34 -0500
Message-ID: <38238A96.40C7CA2_at_iquest.net>


Just my two cents: Oracle's track record (in ten years of experience) has been that the after-market products such as Developer, and notoriously the Designer-class products, lag behind the RDBMS by 6-12 months. I suspect your other candidates do so as well.  

Brian Meek wrote:
>
> I'm not if it is relevent in your shop, but we are in the process of moving
> off of ER/Win do to its lack of support for Oracle 8i. It is unable to
> forward or revers engineer from the database, getting confused on how to
> implment RI and indexes, real simple things that it had no problems with on
> 8.0 or earlier. When we asked CA for a rough timeframe of when they plan on
> adding support for 8i, they sai 99H1. We're now looking at ER Studio and
> Designer as replacements.
>
Received on Sat Nov 06 1999 - 02:55:34 CET

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