Dale,

this is Brian from ApexSQL - one of my products was mentioned in review and LogPI website so I thought I would chime in a bit.

#1 - I appreciate your review. It was obvious you spent much time reviewing and understanding the product. These reviews are sometimes "hit or miss" and ratings are subjective but overall I thought it was one of the better reviews I have read on this site.

#2 - We can all appreciate this particular vendors efforts in helping to eliminate the monopoly that had existed in Log Auditing software for quite sometime. Customers of Log Auditing products - whether they purchase this particular product or a different one - can expect some price relief from the added competition vendors like this introduce.

In the spirit of improving all tools in this log auditing niche and expanding on the benefit your review has produced, I would very much appreciate it if you could download the recent version of our ApexSQL Log tool and give us an update of some of the deficiencies you feel still exist. I feel that you are in a unique position to evaluate log tools based on your experience in this review. Such feedback would be welcomed whether private or public and would have direct effect of improving our software.

We have worked hard in latest releases to fix problems and add many features like DDL Auditing. I think we offer powerful passive auditing capability for a fraction of the cost of some of these other log tools. For example, in this case where $5,000 was quoted as price of LogPi for the number of servers you had you would pay only $699 for ApexSQL Log. Upgrades and Support are free.

thank you for your consideration.