vBulletin 4.0 Dev Update

I am happy to report that we're down to a short list of items remaining before we can officially begin alpha testing vBulletin 4.0, which I expect to start within a few weeks. Alpha testing will occur in phases, with the Forum released first, then followed shortly thereafter by the full Suite.

The alpha release is the earliest point at which vBulletin is installable, and its purpose is to identify issues on a wide variety of environments as early as possible. To that end, alpha testers are those with a long history using vBulletin and who have experience integrating plugins, styles, right-to-left text rendering, and other factors that are likely to reveal bugs.

Additionally, throughout both the alpha and beta releases, we are using a dedicated internal QA team, as well as external QA resources, to help us find and fix bugs as early in the process as possible.

As we get closer to gold release, we'll announce the official details of licensing, pricing and discounts.

Stay tuned!


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Originally Posted by Ray Morgan

In answer to the questions about renewals, yes, by all means keep your licenses current, as there will be special discounts and other benefits available to current customers with active licenses.

News from Ray.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...7&postcount=13

Oh joy a suspected price increase. Does this mean they will price themselves out the market eventually

not really...look at ipb.

Actually, I'm a lot more worried about this:
Twitter / Kier Darby: In the Jelsoft office, sta ...

Originally Posted by Lee G

Oh joy a suspected price increase. Does this mean they will price themselves out the market eventually

They haven't increased the price for a very long time.

Also take a look at community server. It's THOUSANDs of dollars.

You can't compare Community Server and vBulletin. Community Server is an enterprise solution and it works with very big boards with no problem like vBulletin creates. vBulletin is a low budget forum solution not an enterprise solution.

I've used the professional version of community server - you can call anything 'enterprise' if it supports multiple servers easily, it runs on windows, and it has a $15,000 price tag. IMO, it's a big rip off.