Lets say I wish to put together some various kinds of servers that interact with one another with possible clustering. I have three "actors": general admins, developers, and the users the developers are developing for.
Are there any tools (free would be nice) that are for this particular purpose?
I've been trying to do it by adapting StarUML to my situation, but it feels like "using an English wrench on a metric bolt."
I'm looking for something a little more powerful than a drawing tool like Visio.
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Visio is an excellent tool for drawing Flowcharts and Relationship models (as well as Network Topologies.) Really, Visio's utility is limited only by your imagination... (Wow. That was cheesy...)
SmartDraw is a similar tool, but it's not nearly as refined. (In fact, in my mind I can't sum it up in any other way than "awful".) (It tried to be Visio; I'm sure it gave it's very best...)
Dia and OpenOffice Draw can be used to do similar diagramming. It likewise is not as refined, but it's Free (-as-in-Freedom and -as-in-Beer!)
From gWaldo -
Visio is great. A free alternative is Dia, but depending on your needs it might be not enough. You should give it a try.
From knitti
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