EA vs MagicDraw UML

[mogarick]

Hi
I'd wish to see or know about a comparison chart between EA and MagicDraw UML.

I've downloaded Magic Draw UML and it looks pretty cool tool but EA is a very good one also. I haven't had enough time to test both tools to their limits and that's why I'm asking for a good comparison chart.

Thank you in advance for reading and answering to this post.

Best regards.
Ricardo Montoya

[cp]

Yes, this would be great since I've been using MagicDraw and contemplating switching to EA because of the price, MagicDraw is US $900 or so for the Professional with code-engineering.

[KP]

We have a Reviewer's Guide to assist in your evaluation.

[cp]

thanks for that..i'd posted some of my earlier review opinions under the Suggestions section, and upon further analysis i'd like to say that EA has come out way on top in comparison to all these other tools that i evaluated from a Software Architect perspective:

MagicDraw 12.5 Professional for C#, Visual Paradigm, Visual UML, StarUML, ModelMaker 9.0, Poseidon, Visio, Altova UModel, MetaMill and maybe some others i don't remember.

A close contender besides MagicDraw where features + ease of use + pricing were factors, is ModelMaker 9.0 but its code engineering leaves out a lot of frequent things such as enums, nested elements and partial classes, and has no direct support for XMI.

EA looks like a solid CASE tool to integrate almost all phases in SDLC where too much complexity is not needed.

Update: I've actually decided to go for Altova UModel 2007 -> Please see topic "EA and other CASE tools evaluation" for further info.