IB SOLD

mjp said:
Whoa, easy now. If you remove all the useless speculating from the internet there will be nothing left to read. Think before you make rash comments like that.
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I did think....I also read the entire thread, and have also been closely watching the discussion at vBcom. If you read the thread, you'll see that it has clearly turned into a rant of people trying to force their 'facts' as to what they 'know' will happen.

Think before you make rash replies to a perfectly reasonable request for those of us who don't wish to hear false speculation...
 
Doctor said:
XenForo Limited is the only company where I have seen what one of the directors eats at dinner and his dirty feet.

That seems very personal to me.
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hahahhaaaaaaaaa... ROFL! THAT is good.......
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RickM said:
I did think....I also read the entire thread, and have also been closely watching the discussion at vBcom. If you read the thread, you'll see that it has clearly turned into a rant of people trying to force their 'facts' as to what they 'know' will happen.

Think before you make rash replies to a perfectly reasonable request for those of us who don't wish to hear false speculation...
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Oooookay. 
 
Nobody knows what will happen at vB if the deal goes through. What you don't and won't hear is the current team stating affirmatively that they will be there when 2011 rolls around. All they said is that the private equity firm hasn't indicated any specific changes to vB at the moment. It certainly will get interesting in a few short months.
 
Grover said:
I am really totally ignorant on material like this, but can somebody explain to me why something like this is such a bad news?
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Kier said:
Didn't you say that last time around too? ;)
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It seems that I am not the only one asking myself the question if this new situation is necessarily a bad or good thing:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...r-640million&p=2045227&viewfull=1#post2045227 ;) (nice sig, Floris's ;-).
This is the reply from IB's ever so open/frank 'IB Adrian': http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...r-640million&p=2045241&viewfull=1#post2045241. Whatever the future brings for vBulletin, we now at least have a serious alternative (I never ever liked Invision Power Board, because of the 'look&feel' of the product: don't know anything about what's under the hood so to speak). XenForo gives me the pleasure back in using/participating in forums and gives me a very hopeful feeling for the future (all points that Internet Brands' vBulletin4 'Shiny-Things/The best product we've ever brought to market' still doesn't provide, almost 9 months after it's initial release...
 
TheLaw said:
Nobody knows what will happen at vB if the deal goes through. What you don't and won't hear is the current team stating affirmatively that they will be there when 2011 rolls around. All they said is that the private equity firm hasn't indicated any specific changes to vB at the moment. It certainly will get interesting in a few short months.
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The response I got after sending them an email was basically 'no comment' and I wonder when they got my mail they went 'what vBulletin?'
 
TheLaw said:
Nobody knows what will happen at vB if the deal goes through. What you don't and won't hear is the current team stating affirmatively that they will be there when 2011 rolls around. All they said is that the private equity firm hasn't indicated any specific changes to vB at the moment. It certainly will get interesting in a few short months.
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Hence why this press release has even shaken me from VB presently... I was pretty steady to support the company moving forward, and still do and will for a part, but I am seriously shaken about them pretty much switching ownership within so many years and knowing the effect that flows from any new ownership. It was enough to warrant my decision to stop a new VB project launch and switch it to XF.
 
AmericanForum.com said:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/private-equity-firm-acquires-internet-brands-in-640-million-deal/
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Law firm Levi & Korsinsky is already announcing that they’ll investigate if the Board of Directors has breached its fiduciary duties to stockholders by “failing to adequately shop the Company” before entering into this transaction.
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HAHA I am experiencing schadenfreude.

Mr_Bob said:
To be honest, I don't care about the situation. In a few weeks I'll no longer need to deal with IB, whatever company purchased them, etc.
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Exactly. ;)
cedivad said:
I still don't understand.
Why do IP bought vbulletin if they didn't had plans for it?
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dutchbb said:
More control over the software. It's used on many sites they bought.
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Exactly. If you are building your business based mostly on 1 piece of software, and you have a chance to buy the company that makes that software, you'd control the entire supply-distribution chain.

Buying Jelsoft for $20 million takes Mastercard.
But realizing you have no clue how to manage a Software Development team? That's Priceless.
Shamil said:
I really hope things go ok for vBulletin. I still use vBulletin, and I don't want anything bad to happen to them.
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That ship sailed in like 2008 my friend.


By the way, the vB.com thread(s) on this topic are like a black comedy + the three stooges. Update: looks like the thread here at XF got pretty shady too. :(
 

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