Jelsoft Acquired

[Luky]

What about the rest of my questions?

[---MAD---]

Originally Posted by ERuiz

Hmmmm Let's see how things turn out. I really don't know what has been going on and don't certainly want to speculate, but I find it kind of odd that one of the co-founders of VBulletin decided to seek other "interests" right at the time when this acquisition takes place.

Oh well, I could just be trying to see beyond what is being portrayed to the public. Let's just hope things work out and we don't see a price hike in the near future.

That is exactly what I was thinking actually and could be more to it than just what the announcement said.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by Luky

What about the rest of my questions?

omg. please just move on. -_-


Congrats again Jelsoft.

I have confidence you will be able to convert this opportunity into a better product for your customers (us!)...... OR ELSE!!! lol I'm not worried about a price hike or would necessarily mind if it meant an even better product. don't think everyone is nickel-and-diming it around here and worried about a few bucks.

(aside: Good move on Internet Brands, Inc. part. I was kinda was thinking the Big G woulda been interested if they held out though. lol other than that... GOOD LUCK and congrats once again.)

[Wabuf]

Well, I guess there's only one thing to do and that's just to wait and see what happens next... I sure hope they don't increase prices as I do plan on buying more licenses.

[Luky]

It wouldnt be so bad if they shared a partnership for a few months before hand, instead of just passing it on to another company.

[EnIgMa1234]

Why is everyone presuming this is going to be so bad. What if it turns out to be a great thing. Maybe this will make vbulletin a lot better

[dotJoel]

We choose VB over IPB for one main reason, stability. We believed Jelsoft was a further matured and stable company over Invision Power. With this accusation going ahead there is one fear, and that is that the inspiration, the visionary of the whole idea is no longer at the helm. And what is left is a group of managers, who can manage things very well as they have done, but too see no more new life coming into their hands.

Sorry but there is a much greater percentage of accusations that end up bitter then positive.

A company buys another company if it believes it can create better cashflow out of what is there. You buy a company to make money from it, you change the company so it makes more money for you, then you sell the company at a greater prices as the projected returns are now more then what they were when you purchased it.

VB now is in danger of becoming a cashball, a product, and no longer a community. It is in danger of going from company to company, with each one trying its best to increase its profitability during its short ownership then handballing it onto the next.

Anyone remember what happened to iKonBoard when Jeg / Jarvis came about ? Ahh that's right, the core team ran like hell to make Invision Power Board.

We started with IPB, looks like in future we will return.

Hopefully I am proved completely wrong, and have to retract this post in the future. But chances are it won't exist 3 yrs from now.

Regards,

Joel

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by EnIgMa1234

Why is everyone presuming this is going to be so bad. What if it turns out to be a great thing. Maybe this will make vbulletin a lot better

Some ppl like to look for the worst action in things

[RvG2]

Congrats and goodluck Jelsoft.

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

Some ppl like to look for the worst action in things

Maybe because the vbulletin software is a very important part of our websites and we spent a lot of time and energy to enhance and modify it to suit our needs?
It took me some thousand hrs to get this done and it would be a nightmare if major changes as code encryption or car advertising banners pop ups should be integrated in future versions. And sadly there is no alternative to vbulletin.