Quoting guy keren, from the post of Sat, 14 Dec: > > PC Magazine, for example, has done a great job for years, with 22 > > annual comparisons, per year. One of those comparisons, repeated any > > year, compared all the printers that were announced that year (more > > than 100 PER YEAR). These comparisons covered almost anything you can > > imagine. They were very objective, although some of the competitors > > advertised in PC-Magazine. > > and because this kind of thing takes a lot of effort - they only did it > for a more important products in their field. and they sell the magazine > for money, to a lot of subscribers.
and if that comparison was done in the last year, I want it linked from a central "directory of comparisons". > perhaps then you are approaching the wrong crowd - you should approach the > different linux magazines with this suggestion - hopeing they begin it > now, and be able to grow the ammount of products tested, as their > circulation (as they call it) increases. in the case of a laptop or some PCI card, they can do an objective test, but when it's a software product, it's always the problem of emulating the conditions right for the average user. but there is NO average for database users and other such products... > for things i'm not aware of a 'category killer' for, i google, read about > a few, cancel most on the bases of their APIs or config file formats, or > so, try one or two, and then decide if one is "good enough", or i'll write > it on my own. i also sometimes just read about tools randomally, assuming > that knowing them would probably come handy in the future. so I am thinking of a site where people would: 1. publish their personal recomendation and testimony 2. publish links to the useful posts they ound after a bit of googling (a-la linux-laptop) 3. publish benchmarking tools and suites they may have devised in the case of products that require it, so you can try it against more possible candidates and compare, or save time on writing tests that answer your usage patterns. nothing official, nothing "trustworthy", just feedback from fellow users that saves you googeling time by concentrating info, rumors, tips and links. a researcher's helper site. It makes PERFECT sense to pitch the idea to sf.net of freshmeat, since there are many experianced programmers who may like to rave and rant about libraries and tools they have used and why they fit their needs (or gave them fits instead :) Boa semena para voce, Ira. -- You can't handle all that magic Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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