>Hey All!
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>I have a question for you. I have looked at Rational Suite of tools and upper management at the client is balking at the price of their tools. I would like to find other alternatives to Rational's suite of tools that is comparable but yet powerful enough to handle large scale projects with visual data and object modeling, requirements gathering (use case management), as well as enhancement and bug tracking. Preferably we would like to have web based accessibility since the project teams are large.
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>Any suggestions you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
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>Thanks.

I've never been invovled in a project organized enough to use modelers but at the local Sacramento Users Group meeting last month Mark Holmes did a presentation on Visio (I think it was their latest version). I was extremely impressed. I must not be alone becuase MS bought the company a few months back.

www.visio.com - for info