Luke Francl <fran0382 at 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. -- Jon Schewe http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe schewe at tcfreenet.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org