Comparison

http://langpop.com/ A websites that ranks different programming languages by comparing statistics from search engine queries, news articles and job board postings.

http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2008-ICSE-4kernel/html/Spi08b.html Quote from the article: “Therefore, the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is that open source development approaches do not produce software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software development.” A subjective code quality study for linux, windows, solaris and freebsd operating systems kernels

http://freeswitch.org/node/117 Asterisk vs FreeSWITCH (from lead freeswitch developer’s POV)

http://praegnanz.de/html5video/index.php “We are trying to help you decide which HTML5 video-based player to choose for your web project. This site will hopefully be updated regularly. "

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35837/what-is-the-difference-between-mercurial-and-git thread on stackoverflow that contains several useful links comparing git and hg (mercurial)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/10/the-keyboard-cult.html feel like getting a new keyboard – check out that article and make sure to read comments

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2010/11/mysql-vs-postgresql-part-1-table.html An article from a well-known PostgreSQL developer comparing MySQL InnoDB and PostgreSQL table structures

http://code.mixpanel.com/amazon-vs-rackspace/ Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2007/jw-12-appservers.html notes (mostly feature list) on open source java app servers

http://www.paessler.com/blog/2009/04/06/prtg-7/monitoring-cloud-computing-performance-with-prtg-cpu-disk-memory-speed-comparison-of-amazon-ec2-instance-types/ Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances