Re: Free database tools announcements - invitation to discussion

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:46:52 -0700
Message-ID: <1088038040.208802@yasure>

Ed prochak wrote:

>>Can someone please answer Daniel's question - what's wrong with
>>marketplace ?

>
>
> yes I'd like to see that responded to also. The closest has been that
> .marketplace is not frequently visited as .tools is.
>
> My response has been that the difference is not great enough to
> warrant poluting the other oracle groups with announcements.
> Unfortunately, neitherside has hard numbers to determine this eaither
> way.

Actually I had a survey run by my ISP of visits to c.d.o.marketplace and they found it gets a lot of hits. The difference between it and the other groups is that 90% of what is posted there doesn't require a response in the group but rather a direct response to the vendor.

So the appearance of inactivity is deceiving. I personally visit it every day.

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