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Benefits of Participating in the TopTen Program
By participating in the Winter TopTen Program, you can be recognized for managing one of the world's largest or most heavily used databases. You can enjoy the admiration of peers, customers and competitors as we announce that the database you built, manage or use is one of the world's leading implementations.
As a qualified participant in the TopTen Program, you can earn these professional and promotional benefits:
· Winter Corp. will execute a comprehensive, highly visible campaign to inform the media, analyst community and other industry professionals about the Program winners. Winter Corp. is committed to making this effort a key element in publicizing your achievements with large databases. TopTen Program findings have earned the respect of individuals and organizations worldwide. Results from previous Program have been cited in The New York Times; InformationWeek; PC Week; eWeek; IntelligentEnterprise; Forbes.com, TechTarget, CIO Magazine; Computerworld; Database Trends & Applications and DM Review.
· Winter Corp. will write a feature article on the Program for a leading trade magazine. The article will discuss the survey Program, identify the award-winning participants and cite their database accomplishments. Reprints of the article will be available from Winter Corporation.
· Award winners will be announced by Winter Corp. at a special Web teleconference.
· The names, organizations and database accomplishments of all award winners will be posted on the Winter Corp. Web site.
· Prestigious awards and special gifts will be provided to qualified participants.
You can make the media in your industry aware of your accomplishments by issuing your own press release and incorporating findings from the TopTen Program in your organization’s ads, Web pages, sales literature and other collateral.
Survey collection for the 2005 TopTen Program is closed but we encurage you to come back in 2006 to participate in next year's Program.
2005 TopTen Program Results
Be sure t visit us on September 14th, when we will announce the winning metrics and the identities of the award winners who are defining the frontiers of database scalability.