Re: ER/Win vs Designer/2000 - Which is better?

Posted in 1997

Jan C. Zawadzki — Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:59:19 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <33460238.3C59@mindlink.bc.ca>, David Ng <david_ng@mindlink.bc.ca> wrote: >Nathan Secrist wrote: >> (...) >> Let me know your experience (good or bad) with each of these tools. >> If there is other software we should look at please let me know this >> as well. > >If you are database designer and working on a small project, ER/Win >should be you choice. If you are project manager or working on a large >application development, Desginer 2000 should be your choice. I wouldn't go along with this. The 2.6 version of ER/Win has some truly bothersome bugs, including a tendency to auto-layout your carefully designed pages without warning. Having worked around the problems for the last two months I think the product suffers from one major problem: the designers don't actually use it. There are so many places where the interface works against you, it's not funny. Anyway, that's my 2 cents... Jan