Re: S-Designor CASE Tool
Date: 1996/02/10
Message-ID: <4fgse5$h89_at_nntp.interaccess.com>#1/1
Ed -
I worked, for a brief time, as Director of Product Marketing for the U.S. division of SDP, who make S-Designor.
In brief, I believe that S-Designor has one main advantage over ERWin - it's support of a true conceptual model. The conceptual model allows you to design a proper database (normalized, many-to-many relationships, etc.) at the conceptual level and then make adjustments at the physical level, maintaining co-ordination between the two but still keeping them logically distinct.
ERWin's main advantages are it's support of a particular methodology (whose name escapes me now) and the fact that it has a much larger installed base in the U.S.
The 'o' in S-Designor originally stood for Oracle, so I don't think you have to worry about the fact that it was acquired by PowerSoft.
Good luck.
- Rick Greenwald