[Fsf-friends] fsf must rate and talk about application softwares too

[Kush]

Hi all,

Right now it is easy to always go to sites which provide certain kinds 
of application softwares but in the real world people need collaborative 
softwares. I think the business world is using propreitary applications 
for distributed work and we don't have sites which give any ratings for 
such softwares from the open source world.

I am talking of the virtual private network applications or CRM or CMS 
or wiki type softwares where lay people can really collaborate in an 
office or group setting. We have no rating mechanisms to judge which 
features are better among a group of softwares. Typically people are 
interested in knowing

1 whether moin moin is better than (and in what ways) mediawiki or zwiki 
etc etc in the field of wiki softwares. (I came across Moin moin 
accidentally thru the dapper ubuntu cd which features it in the 
opencd.org project.)
or
whether egroupware is better than other softwares in the same line? 
(groupware substitutes for lotus notes etc)
or whether joomla is comparable to drupal or mambo etc etc in features" 
(cms applications)
or whether openoffice's base application (database) is any good and if 
there are alternatives available in the open source world at present 
which can take on msaccess? (or a workaround with a mysql application 
for ms access)
or how does freegis compare with postgis and maxdb etc gis application 
softwares ? (in the gis world of open source software)

or whether ruby on rails will soon outpace python, perl and php in web 
based application development? (though perl, php, python each have a 
HUGe body of historical strength)
Or whether eclipse is better than kdevelop(c++) or anjuta or bluefish or 
boa constructor(python or delphi/pascal) or other IDEs? (when newbies 
have to develop open source softwares)

or the merits/demerits of IDE tools which are linked to version control 
system tools like cvs or subversion etc etc--which are the best tools in 
version control according to various features/parameters

or whether there are better tools than argo UML (poseidon is 
propreitary) in the field of application development software in terms 
of high level requirements specifications software and automatic 
generation of software tools

or what are the strengths vs weaknesses in short form and 
dispassionately analysed etc without advertising jargon.

I don't know any place where such information can be easily read and 
found. and these are the things which really matter for laymen to come 
to speed in the adoption of open source software in India. 
Sourceforge.net earlier used to  give a maturity rating (development 
status) for an application but it does not do so now. Even earlier the 
application software results could never be ordered by the development 
status (except for paid customers of sourceforge) It would be great if 
fsfindia or somebody could enhance the work of sourceforge by having 
some ratings and categorisation of key application development 
tools/catalysts.

Thanks
Kush