Re: [ECUArch-gen] Competitive product to be released?

[Gerhard L. <sep...@fr...>]

Hi Mike,
last period of time I was rather busy with Jim Summers/Austin from 
sourceforge-project AVACS to bring both projects closer together.
Finally I guess, I failed.

Looking to your last communication:
did you make a decision on the future scope of ECUArchitect?

take care,
Gerhard



Am Saturday 14 February 2004 15:08 schrieb Mike Pagel:
> Hi,
>
> while checking the website of my favorite UML modeling tool Enterprise
> Architect, I had a chance to testdrive their new 4.0 beta, which allows
> UML 2 compliant modeling (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au).
>
> Looking at their supported UML 2 composite diagrams, they enable
> building exactly the kind of logical architectures I had in mind for ECU
> Architect. In short, I am not sure whether continuing this project or
> the original setup is still feasible. Compared to typical commercial
> toolkits, which cost around $5000 a seat, an open source project makes
> sense. But in the light of an almost perfect $150 tool, this becomes
> questionable. In particular for an application that is mainly targeted
> at a corporate environment, which usually does not easily settle for
> non-commercial software at all.
>
> One option could be to change the project goal, or its implementation,
> such that not a stand-alone application would be developed, but much
> rather a set of plug-ins and add-ons for instance for a tool like
> Enterprise Architect. This goal needs to be further examined in terms of
> technical feasibility.
>
> Mike