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Where Do You Go for Worthwhile Product Reviews?

Posted by Cliff on from the head-to-head dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Reminds of a KKK rally I once attended by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think I was at that rally. Thankfully we had us some rope and a heck of a good time.

  2. Re:Reminds of a KKK rally I once attended by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why can't I find any good information regarding the superiority of any given race over any other given race?

    If you have to ask, you're probably not white.

  3. Re:Wish it was that simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Keep in mind, Slashdot seems to attract people who feel the need to shove their pedantic, oversimplified solution at anyone they can, probably as an attempt to fill the social void they have in meatspace where their repulsive attitude starves them of attention. The given solution of "quit your job" as a catch-all response to any friendly requests for on-the-job advice comes from the same mentality as "it's open source, shut up and go fix it yourself" whenever someone even politely mentions a bug they have come across in some open source app.