RE: Off Topic: TOAD becoming extinct in Australia
Donna Buskirk <[email protected]>
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Anyone want to share their justification/proof presentation on the list? We can call it "Best Practices for Educating CFOs/CIOs on Toad's Real Value." :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Jesse Sent: October 18, 2012 12:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [toad] Off Topic: TOAD becoming extinct in Australia > I've worked for 3 of the major banking and investment companies in Australia > now and they are all trying to remove TOAD from the workplace. I like to put the costs (tangible or not) in terms that they can understand. My Toad license costs 25% less than the service for the horrible PoS of a Blackberry I was issued. So I gave 'em back my phone, went BYOD and saved 'em the costs. Not that I was in any danger of losing Toad, but... Of course this situation is likely to be unique to me as I'm a DBA, I'm the only DBA, I'm on-call 24x7x365, I was granted Special Dispensation for the BYOD phone, and 95% of my cell minutes were talking to my (lovely) Wife anyway. My point is that your Toad [groan, here it comes] ROI [hate that] is going to vary between companies. Damagement wants proof, so prove it. Make the case (I like using lots of pretty graphs and buzzwords) and present it. I know it sucks. It's like having to prove you're innocent instead of Them having to prove your guilt, and that burns me. I wonder if they've fixed the issue in S-Dev where saving grid results caused a rerun of the query... GL! Rich -- [TeamT] Disclaimer: Herman Melville had one righteous beard. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toad/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toad/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/