Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devfarm Software


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Devfarm Software

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Non-notable per WP:COMPANY, unreferenced, no significant coverage online from reliable sources per WP:RS, prod removed by creator. MuffledThud (talk) 13:30, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  —MuffledThud (talk) 13:31, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  —MuffledThud (talk) 13:31, 30 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Devfarm's PowerWF studio is experiencing exponential growth in users with 1000 downloads for the month of October 2009 alone. PowerWF is being discussed regularly in the leading Powershell and PowerCLI blogs and the VMWare discussion forums.  For these reasons, I believe the Devfarm and PowerWF information is notable and worth inclusion in Wikipedia.Mosquitoeater (talk) 13:54, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete no significant coverage. 1 hit in gnews . LibStar (talk) 14:26, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a visual scripting tool based on windows workflow foundation and leveraging Microsoft's PowerShell. PowerWF Studio leverages a number of 3rd Party Powershell tools including VMware's PowerCLI and VIX.  OK, it leverages, but does it do anything?  There is nothing here to suggest that this business or its products meets a baseline standard of importance, much less any historical or technical importance that would make it an encyclopedia subject. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 18:50, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * In answer to does it do anything - I suggest you read Eric Siebert write up . If you are interested solely in mainstream press coverage, I would recommend giving it until the end of the year, but it is getting significant traction with the high volume PowerShell and PowerCLI bloggers and power users(Luk Dekens, Eric Siebert, Carter Shanklin).Mosquitoeater (talk) 20:23, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Devfarm Software is as encyclopedic as several of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_companies_of_the_United_States Xcud (talk) 21:35, 30 October 2009 (UTC) — Xcud (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Please have a read of WP:OTHERSTUFF. MuffledThud (talk) 21:58, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Devfarm Software's product PowerWF has been featured in entries on the VMWare VIX API blog and VMWare PowerCLI blogs several times. A Google search of the VMWare blogs for PowerWF returns 142 results; http://www.google.com/search?q=site:blogs.vmware.com+powerwf. PowerWF is referenced as a permanent link on the VMWare PowerCLI blog homepage (search for PowerWF). Coverage by a reliable source = coverage on the VMWare blogs (written by VMWare PMs)? ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xcud (talk • contribs) 04:18, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * These blogs, in addition to being blogs, would appear to be pretty obviously media of "limited interest and circulation", unlikely to be read unless you have some kind of professional interest in VMWare, and not the sort of thing that can confer notability on a business. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 20:39, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * VMWare is limited interest!? Are you serious?  VMWare is the 400 lb gorilla in the virtualization market, with twice the market share of Microsoft for a market that Microsoft desperately wants to own.  16% of all servers shipped are used for virtualization .Mosquitoeater (talk) 14:17, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * VMWare has wide interest for people involved in IT, but that doesn't mean that anything covered on blogs about VMWare is therefore also inherently notable to people involved in IT, much less the general population. MuffledThud (talk) 15:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.