Re: [TCLUG:19217] Visio and Dia?

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

Luke Francl <fran0382@tc.umn.edu> writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> My boss and I are writing an article for publication about the database
> backed website we made [1]. For this article, I'd like to create some
> diagrams of the data model and the server setup and things like that. I
> could do it in Photoshop or xfig, but I'm not real big on graphics anymore
> and don't really *want* to. 
> 
> I've heard about a program for Gnome called Dia
> (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/dia.shtml and
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html) which seeks to emulate the
> functionality of the $$$ data modeling program for Windows, Visio
> (http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio/) which is now owned by Microsoft
> and part of the Office suite.
> 
> Does anyone have any exprience with either of these programs (esp. Dia,
> because Visio costs a lot of money, so it's doubtful I could get it)? I
> need a compelling reason to get my boss to pursuade the IT support people
> to let me switch to Linux on my desktop. This *might* be it!
> 
You might want to look at DoME too, http://www.htc.honeywell.com/dome.  I work
for Honeywell so I hear a lot about it.  I've used it for some applications
too.  Decent modeling environment.  Lots of different diagrams to choose from.

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Jon Schewe 
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