[TWood]

* vBulletin- $430 plus server costs
* UBB Threads- $694, $598 or $725 depending on package
* Mes Discussions- $3450 (plus server costs?)
* Community Server Enterprise- $120 000
* FuseTalk.NET- $4998 possibly plus
* FuseTalk- $4998 (wow, same!)
* Groupee- $1800 shared server, $35928
* Jive- $299700 minimum, and for 4 CPUs, $778500 dedicated server
* Lithium- I really don't want to know, way too high

Thanks for that, and the article in your link. I've been wondering about those so-called 'enterprise' level products and whether I should be considering them for an upcoming project. You actually got a price for Jive, which is a feat since their site is mostly an endless loop of marketing superlatives. Now I see why.

I bought licenses for both vBulletin and IPB so I could test them out. It turns out that vBulletin has a critical feature that I need, so that's the route we'll take. Happy it can take on the task.

In my license agreement there's a line that says:

Jelsoft reserves the right to modify these terms at any time.

That really should end all this sturm und drang.