Re: What is the differences between Developer/2000 and Designer/2000?

Richard Woods <rawoods_at_concentric.net> wrote:

>Nelson wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>> I am new to this newsgorup. Can somebody tell me the differences
>> between Developer/2000 and Designer/2000?
>> --
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>> Nelson Lee www: http://home.hkstar.com/~cslee
>> :-|
>> e-mail: mailto:cslee_at_hkstar.com
>Developer/2000 is Oracle's answer to PowerBuilder. Designer/2000 is
>Oracle's CASE product offering.
>--
>Rich Woods
>Technical Field Support Specialist, Oracle Corporation, USA
>The above statements and opinions are my own and do not
>necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation.

First of all, why answer such a post if your answer is not the official opinion of Oracle Corporation.

Second, as Mario points out, the answer is overly simplistic and contradicts things I've heard from various "official" Oracle spokespersons.

What I've heard is that Developer/2000 is the industrial-strength integrated development environment, and Power Objects is the "answer" to Powerbuilder, Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, SQL Windows, etc. - i.e. the tool for building fast "point" solutions.

Designer/2000 is a limited repository with some generation capabilities built in, but (to the best of my knowledge) no reverse engineering functions. The modeling tools bundled with Designer/2000 are absolutely no match in any way, shape or form for products like ERwin, S-Designer, etc. but, at least they are integrated with a shareable (Oracle-based) repository. If you model with ERwin and then model with Designer/2000 (as I have), you'll see what I mean. You can get a shared repository for an extra cost for ERwin I know, and ERwin is said to be building a bridge to Designer/2000). Until Oracle really works to make Designer/2000 more intuitive and easy to navigate, they'll have the same problem a lot of other similar products have, no one will voluntarily use it. Anyone out there know how to spell Foundation? Received on Tue Oct 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST