| Feature | Weight | Rating | Score | Comments
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|---|
- Repositories
- Metadata
- Extended data attributes
- Object storage
- Team development (check in/check out)
- Database support (choice of storage environment)
- Visual repository information
- Support for third-party repositories
|
- Database Design Facility
- Logical database design
- Physical database design
- Schema generation and reverse engineering
Sybase SQL Server
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
Informix
IBM DB2
Other native drivers
ODBC data sources
- Write, test, debug stored procedures and triggers
|
- Database Connectivity
- Sybase SQL Server
- Oracle
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Informix
- IBM DB2
- Other native drivers
- ODBC
- JDBC
- Local/test database engine
- Support for extended relational features
- -(User-defined types and methods/operators, and so on)
|
- Client/Server Architectures Supported
- File-oriented shared database
- Web browser/thin client
- Two-tier
- Two-and-a-half-tier (3270 screen scraping)
- Three-tier (such as TP monitors)
- Four-tier (such as Web and TP monitor)
- N-Tier (such as distributed objects)
|
- Application Design Facilities
- Process model
- Object browser
- Integration with CASE Tools
- Rational Rose
- Select OMT or Enterprise
- Popkin System Architect
- Logic Works ERwin
- Others
- User interface designer
- Generate application forms and other objects
|
- Object-Oriented Features
- Inheritance
- Multiple inheritance
- Encapsulation
- Polymorphism
- Abstraction
|
- Programming Language
- 4GL
- 3GL
- Procedural
- Event-driven
- Database manipulation features
|
- Application Deployment
- Deployment
- Size of .dll
- Size of .exe
|
- IDE Features
- Code editor
- Debugger
- Set break point
- Variable watch
- Single step through code
- Object browser
- Object
- Method
- Display hierarchy
- Interface builder
- Configuration mgmt./version control
|
- Performance
- Interface processing
- Database access
- Application object processing
- Load balancing
- Language processing
|
- Third-Party Component Integration
- ActiveX
- VBX
- OLE container
- OLE automation server
- Java Beans
- Distributed objects
- Java applets
|
- Platform Support
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows NT
- OS/2
- Macintosh
- Unix
- Web browser
- Other
|
- Scalability
- 10 users
- 50 users
- 100 users
- 200 users
- 500 users
- 1000 users
- Internet (thousands of users)
|
- Links to External Resources
- MAPI
- Message-oriented middleware
- CORBA
- COM/DCOM
- TP Monitors
- Internet
|
- Cost
- Per seat (developer)
- Per seat (user)
- Technical supports and upgrades /separate-cost items
|
- Application Partitioning Features
- Proprietary objects
- CORBA distributed objects
- Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- Performance monitoring console
- Partitioning at the object level
- Partitioning at the method level
|
- Internet/Intranet Development Capabilities
- HTML generation
- CGI application generation
- Java applet generation
- ActiveX generation
- CORBA (IIOP) object generation
|
- Reporting Capabilities
- Reporting included
- Cross tabs
- Banding
- Formatting capabilities
- Application integration
- Support for user-defined functions
- Number of functions
- Accesses OLAP and multidimensional servers
|
- Other Issues
- Training availability
- Configuration mgmt./version control
- Available programmer talent
- Frequency of upgrades
- Vendor's financial viability
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This worksheet is designed for developers conducting customized evaluations.
Not everyone assigns the same weight to each criterion or the same rating to each product.
This is the expanded version of the in-print chart.
