Where Do You Go for Worthwhile Product Reviews? 88
An anonymous reader asks: "What's the deal with reviews and product comparisons? My boss wants independent comparative reviews of proxy and web servers to use to make/justify his decision. We all know that what the vendors write about their own (and competitive) products, so I tried searching for 3rd party reviews. I can find heaps of articles on the web telling us how great IIS is or how good Microsoft's Proxy server is, but nothing showing a back-to-back comparison of Squid vs. Sun Java Proxy vs. Microsoft Proxy, and the same for Apache and IIS. What's happening here? Where can I find an honest back-to-back product comparison?"
Reminds of a KKK rally I once attended (Score:4, Funny)
Your question reminded me of that, for some reason.
The right way in corporate America (Score:4, Funny)
What's wrong with you people? (Score:4, Funny)
Here is a good place for unbiased reviews (Score:5, Funny)
Some things I learned include...
1. The only job a real programmer will take must involve Ruby on Rails
2. Never buy a MS product
3. Filesharing music is "fair use"
4. Programmers should not create closed source programs EVER.
5. Linux sucks, BSD sucks, MacOS sucks, and Windows sucks. (I am posting from an IBM/360)
6. The only safe browser is Lynx
How do we know reviews are worthwhile? (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot, of course (Score:3, Funny)
Google "sucks" & "teh sux0r". (Score:4, Funny)
If I'm thinking about purchasing an Acme Widget, I google something like acme widget sucks .
Or if it's a technical product, like the Acme Flux Capacitor, I might google acme flux capacitor teh sux0r .
Because a bad review is worth its weight in gold.
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