Hi Damian,
Having been a development manager for a tool that formerly competed in the
visual modeling market, I can give you advice on one level. Leading vendors
in a market watch their competitors very closely (maybe too closely) and a
feature-by-feature comparison will always have a different outcome after the
next version of one of the products. If a competitor's tool has a
capability that developers or other modelers love, you can bet it will be in
all of tools as fast as development teams can get it there (within quality
bounds, of course).
What people overlook in tool comparisons often is the company behind the
tool, the infrastructure for support of users and their needs and
integrations with other tools. Platinum created a market-leading visual
modeling tool which died on the vine due to lack of the owning company's
support of the tool. Rational became the market leader largely because of
their support of customers and the closeness to customers that led to tool
improvements.
Features are important, but they are not the only thing to consider.
Just my opinion,
cve
Cindy VanEpps
Software Engineering Specialist
Rational Software
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-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: (ROSE) Rose vs Select vs Together
Hi,
While the list is discussing Together, could I suggest a
broader discussion.
I am currently looking at a replacement for Rose and I am
looking at both Together and Select and would like to know
peoples experience of Select as well :>
One of the main criteria I am looking for is the ability
of a tool to read Rose mdl files. We just have too many
on going Rose designs.
I am also looking for:
o Stable design tool (Rose 2001 is too buggy, Rose has cost
my project this year ~£7000 in lost time, we have had to
go back to 2000e).
o Better way for documenting (being able to use more then
just text, and to be able to specify additional sections
within a textual description).
o Better documentation generation (yes we have SODA, but I've
gone for modifying the reportgen_plus script).
o Workable reverse engineering.
o Ability to generate code from state diagrams.
o Easier to use GUI (less mouse clicks and more sensible layout).
o Better team support.
Please don't limit your comments to Rose, Select and Together
as I know there are other tools out there as well.
I look forward to hearing peoples comments and suggestions...
Regards,
Damian
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ODS Design Authority
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TENET Defence Ltd.
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