Re: Platinum ERwin: Cost

Posted in 1999

Chuck Renaud — Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:13:32 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> I switched from Erwin (which I used on a project at a prior company) to > "StarDesignor" -- which cost me $295. at Egghead software. A las, Sybase > purchased the rights to StarDesignor (which looks so much like Erwin) and > it has been buried into their PowerBuilder products to the point where the > features I use StarDesignor for appear to be broken up across multiple > products: ER/Studio from Embarcadero is an excellent product and a fraction of the price of ERwin. Unfortunately, Embarcadero is extremely ignorant of Informix and most of their products only support the "others" (Oracle, Sybase, MS, DB2, mostly). Fortunately, ER/Studio does have Informix support--it's missing a lot of the data warehousing features of ERwin, but I like it. They offer a 30-day eval on their web site...www.embarcadero.com I would love to see some more people bug them about Informix support in their products, as I like them very much (DB Artisan, Rapid SQL and ER/Studio).