Jelsoft Acquired

[Reeve of shinra]

IB purchased all of the forums in their portfolio... I think, but am not 100% sure, that they kept the original owners on as staff to help run it.

[Nutz]

As long as IB let the vBulletin development team keep enough independence to carry on doing what they’re good at, and not try and absorb the vB brand/product into their own too much this can only be a good thing. Don’t get me wrong a bit of fresh blood is a good thing now and then, just don’t mess with chemistry that seems to be working so well.

Thanks,
Mat.

[|Jordan|]

Hopefully the price won't rise so high, the whole greatness of vb is its high quality and semi-low price.

I wonder how much money they sold it for, they're probably millionaire's.

[LEAD_WEIGHT]

If your site has very good content, then you may get a check from them as well. I think this company want to control internet media and is doing a very good job of hiding it from others. It is a good way to control what is said on these types of forums and can influence any group(s) if you can censor what is said and not.

[Reeve of shinra]

Thats giving them too much credit.

[|Jordan|]

Is vb.org sold too? Is it owned by jelsoft too?

[brnoe]

Originally Posted by SneakyDave

Does everybody remember what happened to Madrona Park / Infopop when it tried to expand?

Unfortunately I do as I was a moderator there for a few years, don't see many hobby Groupee boards around now. Just hope a certain webhost we both share doesn't follow this path.

i worked for InfoPop 'til they branched, and i can tell that their project of making the groupee was the worst possible... hosting what they were not able to manage at first is a bad deal...

they have 3 months to fix this, if i remember right... their project is at stakes

[Luky]

Originally Posted by Princeton

the more you look into this deal the more you realize that this could be a great thing for any new social-networking features .. vast amounts of money, servers, and resources

for example, why ping/direct to technorati when you can create your own network? (just throwing ideas)

What does servers have to do with us? Is Jelsoft going to host all of our forums? No.

May i ask this, have any of the coders for vBulletin be changed or modified?

[koxito]

WTF...

If u want me to be sinceir ( or whatever )... this is going to affect in the prices, and if this happens ... they'll lose custumers ... =o...

but whatever... =o just hope they dnt take adventage of us ..