The results are in: What Tech Companies Are Doing it Right?

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Last week I asked you: What Tech Companies Are Doing it Right?

Which SQL (or SQL-adjacent) tech companies are doing right, either by product, by promotions, or by people?

I threw together a poll and kept to my very persnickity rules:

  • SQL and SQL adjacent companies could mean practically anything.
  • Only community nominated entries were used (that is, if MicrappleCo was the only nomination for MicrappleCo, they didn’t make it onto the poll.)
  • Any one person could vote for multiple companies, and/or nominate yet another.
  • Voting closed on Friday Feb 11.

May I have the ballot, please…

We had three major standouts in this crowd.

Redgate Software came in third place, with a total of over 15% of all votes (remember, each person could vote for more than one).

SQLSkills consulting took second place, with 22% of the voting pool.

And in first place stands SQL Sentry, at 24% of the votes.

What Tech Companies Are Doing it Right? Your votes...

Honorable mentions for being nominated go to:

Now, maybe the tech company you adore isn’t on the list.  Maybe it is, and it didn’t make it high enough for your taste. I suggest (in honor of Valentine’s Day) that you Show Some Love this week by participating in Un-SQL Friday #003.  I’ll see you there!

Thanks for playing,
Jen McCown
http://www.MidnightDBA.com/Jen

6 thoughts on “The results are in: What Tech Companies Are Doing it Right?”

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  2. Justin Dearing

    I’d agree with RedGate being number 2, except for their decision to pull the free version of .NET Reflector. That action is unforgivable and I will never buy another RedGate product again.

    I look forward to using the free Jetbrains decompiler product and purchasing ReSharper 6 to get the VS Integrations. I also look forward to the SharpDevelop dev team releasing ILSpy and the Mono team doing the same.

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  4. Jen McCown Post author

    Justin:

    Dude, the new cost of .NET Reflector is $35. You’re going to eschew an entire company because they decided to start charging for a previously free product? I personally don’t know the whole story about .NET Reflector, but from the surface it sounds like you’re being more than a tad unreasonable.
    -Jen

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