Re: Free database tools announcements - invitation to discussion

Ron wrote:
> Dear colleague DBAs,
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> On the other side, by constantly flaming new tool messages (including
> open-source developments) the forum alienates the developer's community.
> This community has huge potential in creating free database tools that would
> be very suited to practical DBA needs - due to the fact that they would grow
> based on feedback from real DBAs on this forum.
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> I think that a reasonable approach to this situation is to open the forum
> to announcements of free database tools (from both individual developers and
> companies).
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[Quoted] The problem is that many of the so called 'free' tools are in fact being   developed for the market by people who intend to go commercial at a future date. I can think of an obvious recent example of this.

Why should such people be permitted to advertise when companies that are honest enough to be up front about the non-free nature of their products aren't?

I work for a company that makes no bones about the fact that our stuff isn't free, hasn't been free and isn't going to be free for the simple reason it cost time and money to develop and test.

We limit our USENET marketing to the marketplace forum because that's what most people are expecting us to do and we're more interested in seeding google groups than a response over the next couple of days.

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> The only condition is that the announced tool stays free forever.
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[Quoted] And how, pray tell, do you propose we enforce that?

IMHO what's actually needed is comp.databases.oracle.announce ....

David Rolfe Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 09:01:17 CEST