On Tuesday 19. July 2011 18.44.46 Scott Ribe wrote: > I'm not sure to whom this specifically should be addressed, but something > that's been bugging me for a while: announcements like this morning's > "AnySQL Maestro 11.7 released", where the announcement mentions nothing > about platform support. And it's not just the lack of that info in > announcements; on many web sites you have to dig for a while to find info > about platform support, and I do not enjoy finding what looks like a nice > tool, only to have to spend 5-10 minutes to figure out that it is Windows > only. > > My suggestion: all such announcements should include information about > supported platforms. Any announcement submitted without that info should > be rejected, and the vendor instructed to add it before re-submission. I totally agree. In particular, Windows users seems to think that everybody else is using their platform, much as right-handers seem to unconsciously deny the existence of left-handers. The corollary being that if the announcement doesn't explicitly say otherwise, you can assume with about 99% confidence that the touted product is Windoze only. regards, Leif -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
