How about a community edition of EA?

[elijahbaley]

Well, how about?  

Of course, a stripped down version would do just fine. If you can not see why, please check out (http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/).

What I'm talking about is an EA edition for the hobbyist (ala ms visual studio express editions).

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

Frankly, I think EA is incredibly inexpensive for what it does.  There are free UML tools of lesser capability out there if one really just wants to play ... although I can't see UML as particularly interesting for play ... but for anyone who actually wants to get some work done, I can hardly see the price as an obstacle.  And, for those poor impoverished students, there is academic pricing that is even lower.

[«Midnight»]

Right on Thomas,

For that matter, why not just scratch out "Community" and write in "Desktop" instead. Surely that's a pretty good bargain, with most of the feature set of the full product.

See: [url]http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea_purchase.html#Desktop[/i]

David

[Jan ´Bary´ Glas]

Hi all, that is me again in the forum (esp. for TK),

there are pros and cons as everywhere.

When I was a student I never thougt of buying software, so I wouln't even try EA if I didn't have friends using it. And, in fact, EA was the first software I bought (on my friends name, he is an entrepreneur and had it tex free in the Czech Republic). (Yes of course, there were some OEMs on my PC.)