The results are in: What Tech Companies Are Doing it Right?
Edit: For more blogs about techie-company love, see Blowing Kisses: Un-SQL Friday #003 Roundup.
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
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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.
[...] Jen McCown (that’s me) just put up the results of the Company Love poll. I give myself the award for Most Impersonal Blog. (Frankly, I [a] didn’t want to skew the participants’ blogs, and [b] have too many companies to name to decide.) [...]
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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