bloody outrageous prices for "Jiveforums"! my god...

[KuraFire]

http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/pricing.jsp

Now keep in mind that this piece of "forum software" is as good as UBB 1.0 from like five years ago.

Unbelievable that people actually get sucked into this sorta scam...

[Rein Masamuri]

when I found this the only thing I could think was price Gouging

[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by Rein Masamuri

when I found this the only thing I could think was price Gouging

if the price-quality ratio for Jiveforums would be applied to vBulletin 3, vB3 would've had to cost about #150.000 per license.

Kinda skewed if you ask me

[Rein Masamuri]

Thats $150,000.00 for all you people who can't read code

[colicab-d]

wow, scam or what!?! this cant be rite, they really are workin folk over here, i mean its not liek they cant know about hings like ib even phpbb and yet they sell this at these prices... i dont bloomin think so, but i guess thats there aim to get folk who dont know better eh?

[pie]

http://www.jivesoftware.com/jive/thr...threadID=11562

Ive raised a question

[Velocd]

Maybe they are trying to set some kind of enterprise solution that appeals to large businesses. (since some people are stuck in this fog where more expensive = higher quality)

Still, this is the most ridiculously priced software I've seen on the web. From what it looks, it's nothing compared to vB3 or vB2.

[KuraFire]

It's nothing compared to vB1 even, if you ask me. There are, like, hardly any features, and what little there is is really not that noteworthy.

Also, the two 'big' features (spellcheck + points system) don't exactly strike me as `very useful for big corporate businesses`, either... :/

[sabret00the]

lol they never shy'd from pie's thread, although they may as well have as they didn't say anything special lol

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by KuraFire

if the price-quality ratio for Jiveforums would be applied to vBulletin 3, vB3 would've had to cost about #150.000 per license.

Kinda skewed if you ask me

Jive Forums is used on sites as massive as Sun's official Java forums, and businesses are clearly the target of the product.

I would also say that a Java product would be a cleaner version of a solution than a PHP product any day.