Talk:Bobby (software)

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Does the Bobby name live on?[edit]

I question whether there is any remaining truth in the following sentence:

"However, the Bobby name lives on in Watchfire Corporation's Watchfire Bobby program"

I'm somewhat certain that Watchfire kept the Bobby name only briefly, then ultimately abandoned the name after integrating its functionality into WebXAct. I'm also somewhat certain that this technology as it now exists within the IBM product no longer uses the name Bobby.

Can anyone confirm these facts?

Tfthompso (talk) 17:26, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The name Bobby definitely does not live on, nor do any of the subsequent products that integrated Bobby's functionality. Neither Watchfire (the company), WebXAct (the product/service), or IBM Rational Policy Tester (product/service) are now in existence. I'm considering rewriting the paragraph that uses this language, but I'm unclear about the details of how Bobby changed hands. Did Watchfire simply acquire the rights to use the Bobby name and logo, or did they acquire the technology itself? If the latter, I propose a revision like the following:

Bobby was acquired from CAST by Watchfire Corporation in 2005. Watchfire initially continued to provide Bobby as a free standalone service, but later incorporated its functionality into WebXACT, a tool that already tested web pages for quality, security, and privacy issues. Watchfire was acquired by IBM on July 20, 2007, and its accessibility testing functionality was incorporated into IBM's Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tfthompso (talk • contribs) 15:28, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I worked at Watchfire until 2007. There was a bobby.watchfire.com site as long as I was there, in fact I was one of the maintainers. Watchfire acquired technology, IP, and one person from CAST: Michael Cooper. No Bobby site is available today, of course.

W3C has a page on Michael Cooper [1]

However, the watchfire.com website today is a different Watchfire, a sign manufacturer. Linlithgow (talk) 18:57, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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