Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J Quick" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.tools,comp.databases,comp.databases.theory,comp.databases.oracle References: <3CBEFB76.9EB33D8E@exesolutions.com> Subject: Re: ERwin vs. Visio Lines: 38 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.125.213.237 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1019154263 ST000 66.125.213.237 (Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:24:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:24:23 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: [[O[BWCE[BWS@^LYMRKNOPDA[X_LPO@FKYYDMREK@YWZUYUBK^RAAEW[QDZ\YQ_IT^C_[EVLDV^NOMOBFFTINWDGGFTKX_DHE@[DRVKC^DQPPOD^HKAHIP[CODFMKGJNYDYIZCZLPI_UWEGS@D^W^B_^J[Y^G\KHBYZC@ESAY[FDPVPEGDA^M]@D]VT_QQVL Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:24:23 GMT Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.misc:80368 comp.databases.oracle.tools:50752 comp.databases:93098 comp.databases.theory:20495 comp.databases.oracle:14759 X-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:22:43 MST (news.easynews.com) When was the last time you looked at Visio? http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/techinfo/articles/developerproductivity/or m.asp Microsoft has greatly enhanced Visio since they aquired this product, as well as the services of Dr. Terry Halpin (InfoModeler), the leading advocate of ORM. http://www.orm.net ERWin is a fine tool. Someone should evaluate all of the leading tools to compare them for their own needs. I usually end up using more than one tool to take advantage of their individual strengths. "Daniel Morgan" wrote in message news:3CBEFB76.9EB33D8E@exesolutions.com... > ERWin has important capabilities not present in Visio. Reverse > engineering, forward engineering, and the ability to write code. It is a > CASE tool ... not a modeling tool. It is more like Designer in that > regard. > > Daniel Morgan > > > > "Robert D. Perry" wrote: > > > Besides the price, can anyone give me the pro's and con's of these > > data modelling tools. Cost is strong determining factor for us but I > > would like for clearly understand the merits of both before making a > > possible short sighted decision. If there any articles or web sights > > you can recommend, I would appreciate it. The VISIO did not provide > > enough information for me. >