[WEB4LIB] BOBBY sold to Watchfire

[Shaw Yu]

You are exactly right about Watchfire.  But I could not find any open 
source software comparable with Linkbot.  That's unfortunately.

Shaw Yu
Systems Librarian
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

Jerry Kuntz wrote:

>I'm a little concerned that the BOBBY accessability validation was bought by Watchfire in August:
>http://www.watchfire.com/news/pressRelease.asp?ID=73
>Although they say the single page free service will continue, I'm not encouraged by Watchfire's history--they took a great link checker, Linkbot, integrated it into a suite aimed at corporations, and in doing priced it out of the reach of their former customers.
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>Jerry Kuntz
>Electronic Resources Consultant
>Ramapo Catskill Library System
>jkuntz at rcls.org
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