[CoreFailure]

> Traditional enterprises were the dominant software employers in the 1990’s, meaning that tech trends likely reflected their interests. That would be a good explanation for UML’s initial rise. Over the past two decades, though, software culture shifted progressively towards large tech-first companies and startups. Neither, historically, was the target audience of CASE vendors. Over time traditional enterprise starts borrowing from tech and startups vs the other way around, leading to the progressive decline of CASE in its extant niches.

This I think was the real thrust of the argument. While UML's death may be exaggerated in many corners of the corporate world, so too is its life in representing our industry as a whole.

[cratermoon]

I'm pretty sure UML and RUP were in the Gartner Magic Quadrant in the early 2000s.