Jelsoft Acquired

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by ricochet

Since my last post IB has acquired a number of auto enthusiast communities. This is my market and is throwing up a huge caution flag for me personally.

After some research on the options I decided to go with IP.Board for my two new projects. It already has blogging, limited social networking, and a bunch of other things VB has been promising for years. (I've owned several VB Licenses).

I can't help but believe that eventuallly IB will trail the features in the commercial version versus what their own sites are running. It only makes sense. Can you imagine the boardroom conversations at IB if another site is out-performing an IB site using their own software?

If IB just acquired Jelsoft, that's one thing. They start acquiring properties in my space? Yes, that's a problem.

What have we been promising for years now?

[ricochet]

Originally Posted by Zachery

What have we been promising for years now?

Okay, fair point. There was no promise, per se. It was more my expectation that a progressive community developer like Jelsoft -- that came on the scene and totally "rewrote" the way forums worked (I used UBB prior to VB) -- would take so long to adopt something as basic as blogs and move beyond the age old forum paradigm into even basic social networking features that were proving to be the "next wave" for several years now. So, expectation, not promise. I agree that's wasn't fair of me to call it a promise.

Though not directly related, I did wait a long time for the official VB CMS that was announced and seemingly took forver to ship. I'm assuming it shipped... I stopped using VB before it was released.

Since I have your attention, any thoughts on those other points I made? They were the main reason for my post.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

There are no plans to restrict access to vBulletin for sites with topics that compete with other IB companies, or to add additional functionality to the IB communities that is not included in the product. It’s more likely that any custom code created by IB for their vBulletin communities can also be integrated into the product.

[EnIgMa1234]

Originally Posted by ricochet

Since my last post IB has acquired a number of auto enthusiast communities. This is my market and is throwing up a huge caution flag for me personally.

After some research on the options I decided to go with IP.Board for my two new projects. It already has blogging, limited social networking, and a bunch of other things VB has been promising for years. (I've owned several VB Licenses).

I can't help but believe that eventuallly IB will trail the features in the commercial version versus what their own sites are running. It only makes sense. Can you imagine the boardroom conversations at IB if another site is out-performing an IB site using their own software?

If IB just acquired Jelsoft, that's one thing. They start acquiring properties in my space? Yes, that's a problem.

All of these tools IPB has can be gotten for vbulletin either free (gallery) or a soon to be release (blogging).

[da420]

Originally Posted by ricochet

After some research on the options I decided to go with IP.Board for my two new projects. It already has blogging, limited social networking, and a bunch of other things VB has been promising for years. (I've owned several VB Licenses)..

Just a note.
IP.Board does not come with blogging, or a gallery. It costs extra to add that. However, IPCommunity which is their bundled community software includes IP.Board, IP.Gallery, and IP.Blog all into one suite at an extra cost. There is nothing wrong with this, but someone might misunderstand and think that IP.Board comes with all that you said, when it doesn't.