Hello Brain,
Thanks for the suggestions.
Let me try to address some of the issues that you have raised.
Firstly, like MySQL, SQLyog is not participating in the “feature race”. We have taken a conscious decision for not allowing SQLyog to become a bloatware like other competing products. At the same time, we strongly believe that you can do 99% of you daily work with MySQL using SQLyog. SQLyog will always remain the fastest and simplest GUI to MySQL.
Secondly, we believe that the pricing of SQLyog is quite reasonable. At a registered user, you get:
– Unlimited premier support at [email protected]
– Substantial discounts ( around 50% ) in the next release of SQLyog Max ( 4.x ). All 3.x upgrades are free.
– Priority bug-fixes – If you come across a bug that is critical for you business, we would make sure that our developers look into in immediately and post a fix at soon as possible.
We don’t plan to increase or decrease the price of SQLyog in the near future. We would be offering substantial discounts on site licenses for “Educational and Non/Profit organizations”.
Thirdly, the response for SQLyog 3.5 has been overwhelming, and the no. of downloads have actually increased after going commercial. Thousands of existing users of SQLyog are more comfortable with the fact that SQLyog is now a well supported product. It is not going to disappear into oblivion like other promising freeware products.
Regards,
