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[nycphp-talk] ER Diagram tool for MySQL/OS X

csnyder chsnyder at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 15:16:54 EDT 2005


On 10/4/05, Hans Kaspersetz <hans at cyberxdesigns.com> wrote:
> It just dawned on me, that I need to chime in here in a more thoughtful
> way.  Like Hans said, we are using Enterprise Architect, the short
> coming is that it does not run natively on OS X.  You will need virtual
> PC with Windows running on your OS X machine.  This will incur a
> performance hit.  I am currently using EA on OSX through Virtual PC with
> Windows XP Home.  It is not a terrible situation.  We standardized on EA
> even though a part of the team is on OS X becuase it is a very useful
> piece of software and the benefit of EA out weighs the cost of Virtual
> PC.  Just to be clear I have a 12" Power Book G4 1.33 with 1.2 GB of RAM.
>
> Hans K

Rather than take the Virtual PC performance hit, you should probably
run a copy on a spare Windows box somewhere and use Remote Desktop to
bring it up on your Mac.


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