BEA CEO's View on UML. From eWeek article

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1590788,00.asp

Well, with the modeling technology they've added to their lineup, you
don't see that as an advantage for them?

Well, UML [Unified Modeling Language] is interesting technology—it's an
intermediate language scheme. And it's huge. You look at most of the UML models,
you say, oh my God. They never generate any code out of the things. It's just
modeling for modeling's sake. So, for me, that's not very interesting.

There are much more interesting things to do. If this was the kind of new
technology people are doing around BPM [business process management] workflow,
that is much more interesting. It captures specific business flows and allows
you to dynamically change them on the fly.

This is so much more usable than modeling their entire business and trying to
generate code to run it, and you always have to go back to the model and adjust
the model itself. I don't think that's the practical way to go anymore, with the
technology we have today.