To: Hans-Erik Eriksson who wrote (116 ) 9/2/1998 3:27:00 PM From: Hans-Erik Eriksson Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 522
Visio is entering the "CASE tools" area. Looks very promising. "Visio Announces New Product Will Support Visual Studio 6.0 PR Newswire - September 02, 1998 09:15 Highly Anticipated New Product to Offer Logical, Component-Based Design And Modeling Capabilities SEATTLE, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Visio Corp. (Nasdaq: VSIO) today announced that its new product, code-named "Venice," will feature capabilities to complement and extend the functionality of the Microsoft(R) Visual Studio(TM) development system version 6.0. "Venice," scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter of this year, will comprise a complete graphical design and modeling tool for IT professionals who manage team-based development and maintenance of enterprise information systems. Its support for Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 will facilitate reverse engineering of existing Microsoft Visual Basic(R)- and Visual C++(R)-based code into UML diagrams, as well as extend UML modeling functionality in Visual Studio 6.0. The powerful enterprise-modeling capabilities of "Venice" will dramatically extend the software and database design functionality currently offered in Visio Corp.'s Visio(R) Professional software product and will incorporate recently acquired technologies from InfoModelers Inc. and Kaspia Systems Inc. ... Technology acquired by Visio this year from InfoModelers and Kaspia Systems will be included in "Venice" to offer database design and enterprise network discovery capabilities, thus serving the spectrum of IT management needs. In summary, "Venice" will offer an intuitive and affordable way to design and model enterprise databases, software applications and networks. "Venice" will be priced at approximately $1,000 (U.S.)" Best regards, Hans-Erik