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This page contains important information about our review process - please read carefully.
SSWUG.ORG is interested in reviewing your product, book, idea or other tools and
techniques compatible with the content and readership of SSWUG.org's community.
We'd be interested in doing a review, complete with our rating and recommendations
on your product.
Our reviews are subject to technical and english edits, but not for style - style
is determined by the reviewer or reviewers assigned to look at your product. We
work very hard to provide objective, clear, concise and complete reviews, and we
also work to make sure we extend beyond the "wow, this is a great product" and into
the world of "here's good information about this product, here's what we see as
the strong points (if any), the weak points (if any) and the in-between points (if
any)."
You do NOT have to be a sponsor of the site to get a product reviewed.
To submit your product for review, you'll need to do the following:
- If your product is a program, provide a fully-licensed copy of your program.
No time locks. No functionality locks. Sorry, no exceptions. What we review
MUST be the exact same thing as a fully-licensed product that you would be selling
to someone based on our review. If this is a problem, please contact us. Yes, we
realize that time-locked product potentially has the same functionality as fully-licensed
code however, we have experienced cases where this is not true, and we will not
review software that is not fully licensed. We are not in the business of pirating
your software, we won't give out keys, and we are under strict NDA and confidentiality
on this point with all reviewers to ensure the protection of your intellectual property.
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If your product is a book, please send one copy to the address shown below. It will
be sent to the reviewer at our cost if they are not local. Books cannot be returned.
We will assure a fair, competent review. You will be given a chance to preview the
article prior to publication and provide any feedback, ideas, clarification you
wish. This is a review though, and the article's author and SSWUG.ORG has final
say in what is included, what is not.
It's best if, during the review, and accompanying the initial product for review,
you provide a technical and a PR contact in case any questions come up during the
review.
The time to complete the review depends on a number of issues, the most significant
of which is the complexity of your product, and any system requirements that you
have that we need to be able to fulfill to review your product. The more "unique"
your requirements, the more difficult it will be to perform the review. The other
factor involved relates to the current editorial workload - which is just a luck
of the draw. It's best to submit your product as soon as possible, then work with
us to get the review completed as soon as possible, given the other factors.
Please Note:
We are constantly receiving items for review - from books to software to other web
sites and just about everything in between. We'll do our best to address reviews
we think most pertinent to the SSWUG audience, and those that we can do justice
to in terms of a lab environment. Clearly we cannot guarantee a review, and timing
is heavily dependent on editorial calendars, workload, other reviews requested and
applicability to both our lab environment and the user community here at SSWUG.
DO NOT be offended if you don't hear back or it takes time to consider your product.
This doesn't mean we're not interested, it means that we've received your request
and that if we have questions or comments, we'll surely let you know. Feel free
to contact us, but please do understand the workload for a given review may either
preclude us from doing it or make it such that it may take some time to be able
to get to the review.
We are very interested in seeing your product or offering, but want to be clear
about timing expectations. If you have a particular time- frame in mind that you
need to have the review completed within, please be sure to indicate it in your
request. This doesn't mean that we'll be automatically committed to that timeframe,
but it does mean that we'll know you have other factors that you're working with
and we'll see if we can make it work with other scheduling concerns.
We cannot promise to review each and every product, service, idea or concept we
receive. Sorry, but the volume of submissions simply precludes us from doing so.
Please do not submit incomplete products, or concepts. If the general population
is not able to use your product, it's likely we won't be able to complete the review,
since we're here to let others know about our experiences with your product so they
can make up their minds to further investigate it.
We are NOT trying to pursuade you not to submit your product or service for consideration
- just being up-front about the process.
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Our contact information:
Lead Editorial - Stephen Wynkoop or
reviews@sswug.org
Mailing address:
The SQL Server Worldwide User's Group
6420 E Broadway Blvd., Suite A300
Tucson, AZ 85710
UPS, FEDEX, USPS, etc. all ok.
Phone: 520-760-2400 or 877-853-9158 (toll free, continental US).
After your product is reviewed, if you're interested in linking to the product review
from your website, please contact us. We will set up the review so that anyone linking
in from your site will be able to read the review, regardless of whether they are
a member of SSWUG.ORG.
Please note: when your product is reviewed, it may also
be used in presentations as different reviewers are responsible for local user group
meetings, conference presentations, etc. We are not trying to be overly aggressive
on the licensing requirement, we simply must make sure that reviewers and presenters
are first showing accurately what the customer will use, and second should the software
be used in a presentation, that the presenter is not working with trial ware or
expired software.
If you need your product returned to you, please work with us to arrange a pickup
with the a carrier of your choice. The costs of returning the item are the responsibility
of the vendor. Products not requested to be returned may be offered in SSWUG drawings
or used by the author. Please be sure to request that your product is returned
at the time you submit it for review.
If you're interested in a specific person reviewing your product, please be sure
to tell us that! We'll do our best, but cannot guarantee that a specific author
can complete a review (especially difficult to estimate timing).
Legal Information: By submitting your product for review, you agree
to hold SSWUG.ORG, Bits on the Wire.com, Inc., any and all associated employees,
contractors, officers, columnists, writers and/or reviewers harmless relative to
ANY and ALL claims regarding content, accuracy, presentation or any other aspect
of the review. Our reviews represent our opinions only, and you are free to voice
differing opinions on your own venues. By submitting your product, you agree to
these terms in perpetuity.
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