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The Toad program has a nice plug-in for performance tuning, whereas with the Oracle tool you have to switch over to Grid Control or their application server. Floyd Absher, database administrator, Progressive Medical Inc. Database professionals said that while Toad software is more mature and offers more features, it's hard to ignore the price for SQL Developer. Oracle said the tool is available free of charge without restriction. 'I find that [SQL Developer is] very similar to Toad, but the cost is right,' said Chris Tryon, a Project Raptor beta tester and manager of programming at Hatch Mott MacDonald, an engineering consulting firm based in Milburn, New Jersey. Raptor is offered in both freeware and commercial versions.