smartDraw and alternatives

[Bernard Devlin]

OmniGraffle for OS X is very,  very nice.  It came free with my Macs.

On Windows/Solaris/HPUX there is VisualThought - which is  
abandonware, but they had the decency to produce a free license code  
for it when it was abandoned:

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/diagramming/confluent/

Bernard

 > what software for easy drawing eye-candy diagrams (Tree diagrams, ER,
 > block
 > diagrams from templates) do you usually use? I tried smartDraw (www
 > smartdraw.com) but for some reason it is very unstable and almost  
unusable
 > on my system, so decided to ask for your advice again on comparable
 > alternatives (MacOSX, Linux, Windows). Thanks in advance!