[WEB4LIB] BOBBY sold to Watchfire

[Drew, Bill]

I am also concerned but not surprised. I am beginning to wonder about a
not-for-profit group that sells off its virtual resources in this way.  I
would be curious as to how much money changed hands.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Kuntz [mailto:jkuntz at ansernet.rcls.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:41 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] BOBBY sold to Watchfire
> 
> 
> 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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