I'm your typical overwhelmed pre-newbie.

Has anyone seen an overview of computer-based recording software products? I'm looking for something (such as your typical magazine annual product review, etc) that takes all your market-leading sw products and does any of the following:

1) categorizes it broadly by function/purpose
2) categorizes it by target market (beginner, intermediate, advanced amateur, professional, etc
3) assesses it against a features & functions list (you've seen these before--I'm talking about your two-page fold-out table of products against features with checkboxes or symbols in the intersection cells).

The same thing for interface cards would be pretty darn handy, too.