All, I also downloaded this Data Architect. I was however not very impressed with it. It seemed to have some basic features and functionality, but was lacking in some things like Logical vs. Physical Modeling. I guess after drive a rolls royce (sybase's powerdesigner) it's hard to get used to a saturn (theKompany's product).
Sincerely, Leon Oosterwijk ISDN-NET Inc. www.isdn.net +1 615-221-4200 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:12 PM > To: SQL > Subject: RE: SQL 7 Database Diagrams > > > A low-budget alternative is Data Architect by theKompany.com > (not to be confused with Sybase's product, which I think used > to be called by the same name before it became Power > Designer). I've only used this for about 30 minutes at the > most, so I can't really say how good it is, but it has some > interesting features: > > 1. The download version costs $39.95 (that's right, forty > bucks!) 2. It stores all of its data files as XML 3. It is > available for both Linux and Windows (and with XML data > files, there aren't any interoperability problems) > > The Windows version is a little odd, but appears to work just > fine. They wrote the Linux version first, then ported the > software to Windows. The program uses the Trolltech Qt > library (same as the Linux desktop manager KDE), so the > Windows version is this tiny little executable with a HUGE > Qt.dll file that translates the Qt calls into Win32 functions > (the .dll is several MB in size). > > The only down side to Data Architect is that it does not > directly support Microsoft SQL Server (making it the > antithesis of Visio, I guess). It has physical data models > for PostgreSQL, mySQL, Oracle, ANSI-92, and a couple of > others that I don't remember. There is a reverse-engineer > function, but I never tried it. > > Basically, I evaluated the software and decided that since my > company had already licensed Visio, I'd stick with it. > However, if I were paying the bill myself, I would seriously > consider Data Architect. Not only is it inexpensive, but > it's one of the only products available for Linux. > > Incidentally, the same company also has a Web Editor called > Quanta Gold that supports ColdFusion, XML, PHP, SQL, Python, > Perl, DTML - Zope, C++ and HTML. It also uses the Qt library > and so is available for both Linux and Windows. I've never ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
