If Microsoft would buy vBulletin and Jelsoft
 

Think about how wonderful vBulletin is right now, the service, the way they update things, etc. Now imagine how much more wonderful it would be if Microsoft bought Jelsoft. :tired:

>_> I don't think Jelsoft would ever sell out to that evil corportation.

/me switches to Linux

I would try to stay, see how it is and goes and do my best to upkeep the quality of support and services :) And otherwise I will be walking.

What if Google, INC. bought Jelsoft.

Now I'd probably wouldn't mind that... but I think Google would code their own BBS before they bought another company.

Seeing as how Google prefers lite applications, a whole bunch of vB features would have to be removed before it would get the Google seal of approval.

We'd all have to ditch our Linux hosts for MS Sharepoint servers! The joy!

We should start taking BETs on when they will get to that.

Too late. Google Groups already fills that niche for them.

It would be terrible if M$ took over. They would take a really nicely developed system and put it on top of their own dev platform which would hog way more resources and be a nighmare to modify. Imagine it, you make a template edit, then have to restart your server each time. :D

Evil how?
The world & "business" runs MS -

Evil cause, what, they've kicked ass?
Oh boo hoo EU & boo hoo "unfair competition"

Get off your ass, invent something & MAKE MONEY - that's what the world's about, not the whining, liberal, 7 weeks of vacation/year, gimme, gimme handout, woe is me social experiemt we've come to know!:banana:

*edited by Kall* Please watch your language.

[high]* Ziki is happy he doesn't have to change servers :banana:[/high]

Google will run the free world in a few more years. Can't wait for my google mark of the beast chip inplant.

It would be in ASP/MSSQL and not PHP/MYSQL.

Nice post :cool:.

He does have a point. Too bad it's not a valid or intelligent one. :cross-eyed:

I like MS and have a family member who's on the current Vista team (as well as XP and 2000). Gotta represent! :) I'm not sure about a MS and Jelsoft merger, however, as they are two different solutions.

My thoughts exactly

Why is that? I was thinking how much nicer it would be to have a professional team of developers. Probably like a few hundred people developing vbulletin.

Think how much better vbulletin.org would be with ADULTS actually running the site, rather than all the punk 14 yr old sissies and cry babies on here.

Subtract them and the 14 year old sissies who cry when they dont get their free support and we've had a winning combination here.

Hmm... I don't think we have any 14 year olds on staff...

/me checks

Nope we are all over 18 afaik.

I think they were referring to their acting age, not actual age.

Ooooo

It would be ASP.NET... they smothered ASP in the cradle.

When Boofo was a mod, the average age of the staff was 82. ;)

Priceless.

:lol: I agree

Well, I agree with your comments on people getting off their ass and working hard, and I don't think Microsoft is evil, but given their MEGA resources and the inbuilt problems with their bloated OS and the high level of resources needed for their server systems they are just plain incompetent.

If they bought vB the system would be rebuilt to only work with .net or similar. Costs for the average Admin (for running a hosting account which is MS compatible) would go through the roof and all for a product that does nothing more than the existing version.

Are you saying that running Linux is cheaper? If so i agree to a point. Such as the smaller guys running linux is cheaper, but according to alot of recent market studies developing on MS is cheaper

Really? Do you have a link to that research as I would be interest in reading its sample pool and it's findings.

Do you know how hard it is to find a _good_ linux system adminitrator? I mean I'm personally getting there the more I work with it. But I could probally walk into a windows enviroment now and take over with no more training ( I did have alot of formal training during high school and placed 14th nationally for windows network and system administration). Everyone knows windows, linux requires re-training everyone, system administrators, end users, managment? Why go though all of that costs? Total Cost of Linux is much much higher in the long run.

Just Google for "linux windows server tco analysis". Here's a random example.

Good find, while Linux may look dandy and super to a computer nerd, to a company running a million dollar an hour website it might not look as appealing.

How'd we get so off topic. :cool:

I think everyone should contact microsoft and request a Forum application embedded into windows Vista. after a couple million request, Vbuletin could have fast sale in the sum of 5 billion ... thats enough to spread out between us ... and keep us all happy with jelsofts new release of forum software ....

maybe im just thinking too hard ... lol

Gud part will be Vbulletin will have 22 Hot Fix a month (Every 17th :P) 3 years once a release and will cost fortune (CAL module will be in place) and php converted to buggy aspx u need 4 servers to run VBulletin front end / back end middle server and the db server ;) above all Free Vbulletin Crash-In Report module will be given free to every1 ;)