Re: Oracle Designer VS ERWin --- Comments

Ryan wrote:

> there was a post yesterday on the odtug designer listserv from Paul Dorsey
> who has written several developer books. He states that his company is using
> a tool called 'BRIM'. Alot of people feel that Oracle is going to move away
> from designer in the future and put all of its functionality into
> jdeveloper.
>
> doesnt necessarily mean much now, however, you may want to reconsider using
> an item that may not be fully supported in the future.

[Quoted] If Oracle follows/completes the single repository push for all tools that most vendors are having (yet another silver bullet?) I suspect Designer will become just another pretty face in the tool set. But I don't see it disappearing any time soon.

I first used Oracle*CASE & SDE - designer's forerunner - in 1988. Since then I have heard about the impending demise of the tool and it's successors at least once every two years, both from inside and outside the company. Ain't happened yet!

And Open/Oracle World always has a few impressive displays on the product - you might want to check there (nowadays OW is also mostly available online as well ... and you should be able to check the archives)

Designer was supposed to get an OO overhaul a few years ago, but the OO stuff ended up being clipped into JDeveloper where it was immediately useful. Received on Sun May 25 2003 - 04:43:02 CEST