Red Gate Discusses SQL Prompt

Red Gate recently acquired a program named PromptSQL and renamed it SQL Prompt and released a version 2 for free. It turns out that the code underlying SQL Prompt was not quite as robust as the Red Gate folks expected, and so since they had promised a version 2 out, they decided to release it for free, and then rebuild the code from the scratch and release a commercial version 3 that would require payment.

Turns out, this process kicked up a lot of dirt in the community.

Here is Simon Galbraith's response to the community.

In the interests of full disclosure, I have done a fair amount of writing work for Simple-Talk.com, the content Web site operated by Red Gate. That said, I do believe Simon's response to the issues brought up by community members is entirely reasonable.

What do you think?

Posted by Douglas Reilly at 02:12 PM  Permalink