Re: What's the best development tool for Oracle ?

From: Robert A.M. van Lopik <lopik_at_mail.telepac.pt>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:57:20 -0000
Message-ID: <btu9ds$batnc$1_at_ID-191217.news.uni-berlin.de>


"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1073846810.341977_at_yasure...
> Robert A.M. van Lopik wrote:
>
> > By the way, what is left of those other Enterprise Dictionaries? The
IBM-one
> > was called AD/Cycle, IIRC, and there was also an effort by Microsoft,
> > Platinum and Rational. That was all in the mid nineties.
>
> Platinum sold ERwin, if that is what you were refering to, to Computer
> Associates and it is now available as AllFusion ERwin.

Actually CA bought all of Platinum. And I certainly did not mean ERwin, which is an ER-modeler, not a dictionary
>
> Your comment about Oracle's Designer and "end-of-life"? What is the
> origin of this comment? Designer is alive and well AFAIK.

Maybe I should have used the more fashionable term "mature". I.e. no new developments. See e.g.
http://otn.oracle.com/products/designer/mod_strat_apr_03.html or another thread in this group today where you also contributed. In a way this is a pity; with all young people only learning UML, they are driven to JDeveloper and JAVA instead.

ciao
rob van lopik

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