-----Original Message----- From: Michael Bernstein [mailto:mbernstein@profitscape.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 12:41 PM To: Michel Pelletier Cc: 'Benno Rice'; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Programmatically adding and deleting indexes in a ZCatalog

I know that DC uses Object Design (not sure what version). This is the first I've heard that it's given you any problems. I had been considering purchasing it myself.

ObjectDomain, actually (http://www.objectdomain.com/).

Can you tell us what problems this product has, and is there an alternative that's better?

We've used OD and Rational Rose. I can't comment on RR since I haven't used it, other than Jim has told me that OD is better at visualizing UML than RR (which is surprising, since the three authors of UML work for Rational). OD is also much cheaper than RR, and Rational has all kinds of 'support' and 'process' products that get you for more money if you go for it. OD could be a great application, but it has serious problems. Nothing too serious that couldn't be fixed with a decent alpha/beta cycle (or an open sourcing! ;) My beef with OD is that it's just *not* final software like they say it is. It could barely be called beta software. Today alone, it has caused me more grief than Microsoft Outlook! If they would fix these bugs and make some other improvements, I would recommend their software. They are responsive with their technical support and are allways helpful with our problems. We met them at LinuxExpo this year (where they had a demo running on NT :/) and they are a pretty small company and very friendly. -Michel PS. This email represents my personal opinion and not any kind of official statement from Digital Creations about either ObjectDomain or Rational Rose.