Mac OS X version of EA

[robert.staflin]

Are there any plans for a Mac version of EA? I use EA extensively at work, but use a Mac on the way to/from work and at home. Having to start Parallels or VMware to run EA isn't fun...

[beginner]

No. No. No.

b.

P.S. Why isn't parallels fun? I enjoy Apple-H. Use an Intel-Mac plus enough memory. My 2 year old MacBook Pro has 4 Gig and when VM is up it looks and feels like a PC (hu!).

[robert.staflin]

  It isn't fun, because I want my memory and processor for other things besides Windows.

I agree about your assessment of virtualization software on Mac OS X though - both VMware and Parallels work very well (I own both, but prefer Parallels at the moment (it changes now and again)) - and I've got a MBP with 8 GB of RAM, my second.  8-)

At the moment I can do all development in Eclipse under Mac OS X, although everybody uses Eclipse on Windows at work (I had the opportunity to chose the character encoding UTF-8 before anyone else checked out the code), so I'm happy with having the machine all-Mac at the moment.

[Aaron B]

No plans for a native Mac OS X version at this time that I am aware of, but in addition to solutions such as VMWare and Parallels EA can also be installed via Crossover / WINE on an Intel-based Mac.  See:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/support/faq/enterprise-architect-WINE.html
(Same solution applies for both Linux and Mac users.)

[aehrlich]

We use VirtualBox on Macs (to run EA, among other things), it works at least not worse than Parallels and doesn't cost anything. You just have the extra cost of a Windows license anyway.