Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: > 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. We have the same problem with people posting to pgsql-jobs where they don't mention the location of the job. I usually email the people privately about this. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
