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From: hmm@gustav (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Subject: Re: [**] http://www.eiffel.com awarded 4-star rating by Magellan
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Bertrand Meyer (bertrand@eiffel.com) wrote:
: Here is for a bit of boasting:

: We just received notification that our Web site

: 	http://www.eiffel.com
: 	The Home page for Object-Oriented Technology,
: 	TOOLS conferences and Eiffel

: has been awarded a 4-star rating by the folks at Magellan
: (http://www.mckinley.com), whose browser is based on a system
: of rated browser, somewhat like a Michelin guide to the Web.
: 4-star is the highest.

Congratulations, but my own experience with the Magellan 4 star
rating indicates that it should be taken with a grain of salt.
I received a 4-star rating for an information service that I maintained
out of private interest (nothing object-oriented) but discontinued
with the beginning of 1996 because of lack of spare time.
The rating was awarded just 1 or 2 days ago, 3 weeks after the welcome page
was finally modified to read 'This service is being discontinued'.
The review also favorously mentioned a search engine that I built for this service,
but this search engine has been dysfunctional since November last year.

Probably I'm a bit picky, but I think that Web ratings should not only
consider content and form, but availability, too.

--
+--- Hans-Martin Mosner -------- Senior Smalltalk Guru ---+
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