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Bart

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**SQL Prompt 3 Released**

Published Monday, January 22, 2007 4:03 PM

We're very pleased to be able to announce the release of SQL Prompt 3. Get it here:

http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Prompt/index.htm

We've fixed quite a number of bugs since the final beta. Most notably the popup behaviour is significantly improved. We've also added support for SQL Server 7.

We hope you enjoy using it!
by Bart Read
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Comments

 

siroshka said:

Excellent!
But why is in NOT free?
January 27, 2007 3:18 PM
 

Bart Read said:

Erm... because we all have to eat? ;)
January 29, 2007 1:08 PM
 

siroshka said:

But previous version was free.
IMHO It is not very good practice to release free soft and after some time make new version charged :(
January 30, 2007 3:29 AM
 

Bart Read said:

Hi siroshka,


Apologies for not getting back to you earlier - I've been on holiday for a couple of weeks.

I think your comment would be a fair point if we'd suddenly sprung this on everyone, however the reality is that right from the word go when we released SQL Prompt 2 for free we always made two things clear:

(i) that it would only be free for a limited time period,
(ii) that when SQL Prompt 3 came out you'd have to pay for it.

It's a tactic many other companies use in some form or other as well: either they have a free version and a paid-for version of a tool where some functions are not available in the free version, or an earlier version of the tool is free with the current version being paid-for. It's by no means a new idea.


Thanks,
Bart
February 12, 2007 5:23 AM
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About Bart Read

I've had a few jobs since graduating, but for the last four years I've been settled at Red Gate Software in Cambridge, UK. Over that time I've worked on a wide range of products, both as a developer and as a project manager, including 18 months on SQL Prompt; right now I'm finishing up with ANTS Profiler 4, which we think is going to be amazing - hopefully you will too.
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