PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE KILLS BABIES. And rather than spend a zillion years fighting the piece of shit known as dia, I chose to use Microsoft Access to create a few tables and draw lines between them.
Visio
djberg96 on 2004-08-10T16:18:16
Well, if you're going the way of propietary software anyway, I think you would like Visio.
:)
Re:Visio
drhyde on 2004-08-10T20:47:21
I hate Visio too, although I hate it less than dia. For the job I wanted to do, Access really is the best tool.
Open source isn't everything.
brian_d_foy on 2004-08-10T17:51:53
Excel still kicks OpenOffice's butt, and I haven't found something better than FileMaker to give to non-techies when I want them to manage their data.
Philip Greenspun talks about this on IT Conversations. He says that open source hasn't come up with a good word processor because it was invented a long time ago. The propietary ones have had plenty of time to get their act together and give customers what they want.
Schema mapping software
grantm on 2004-08-10T21:32:49
Druid might be worth a look too. A colleague has used it and likes it.
