[Sigia-l] visio feature improvements - why bother?

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"David Heller" wrote:

> ...basically the role we are talking about has to be done regardless of who in
> the organization claims to be doing it. IA, Interaction Designer, Business
> Analyst, System Architect, etc.

Yes, IA is not only what an IA does.

> The requirement to build a user interface and design specify it so that others
> can follow that design is there regardless.

Yes.
 
> I do think that Ziya did make an interesting point about how 80% of Visio's
> market is not for us, so why would someone like Adobe or Macromedia enter a
> marketspace so small.

Or put differently, why should we rush to make 'standard' a tool 80% of
whose feature-set is not for us?
 
> BTW, there is an option out there that was mentioned on this list that I
> really like as a Visio substitute, but they aren't exactly what I need
> either, but at least they aren't MS and they are trying. That is
> Norpath.com.

Yes, I posted it here first :-) I don't think they see themselves as Visio
substitute, though. To substitute Visio you need to duplicate its gargantuan
feature set, at which point you might as well become Visio.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba