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History
editBefore Davtra edited.
Invision Power Services was created when Matthew Mecham and Charles Warner left the company known then as Jarvis Entertainment Group (now Westlin Corporation). Mecham, the original author of IkonBoard, alleged that the Jarvis Entertainment Group intended to charge for its software rather than maintain its free status. A large number of supporters from Ikonboard followed Matt and Charles to their new company.
Invision Power Board was free with technical support, and the company maintained the product would remain free. The license changed incrementally, so that the free version became an unlimited free trial. On September 27, 2004, IPS discontinued the free trial, and the product moved to a paid-only model with a 15 day hosted trial.[1] The 15 day encrypted file trial was discontinued and replaced with a shorter trial available on IPS servers. Some[who?] criticized this change as hypocritical as Invision Power Services was started in protest to Jarvis Entertainment Group's desire to sell IkonBoard and is now selling its own product despite its assertions that the program would remain free.
On February 2, 2006, the company announced a new official resource and technical support website IPSBeyond for customers only with active software licences. With the opening of IPSBeyond, support forums on Invision Power Services were closed and moved to IPSBeyond.[2] IPSBeyond closed and support was moved back to Invision Power Services.
On September 20, 2006, Invision Power Services announced to offer continued product and support enhancements they have implemented a change to their pricing and license structure for Invision Power Board. The new license options were Standard License, Business License, and Enterprise License options. It was announced that all current licenses are still valid for their duration. Any renewals, etc. of current licenses will adopt the new license offerings. IPS also added their IP.Community Suite (an option since removed): a single purchase which encompasses their entire suite of community products - IP.Board, IP.Gallery, IP.Blog - for a significant discount off purchasing them separately.
Products and services
editSpam Monitor Service
editThe Spam Monitor Service is a service for Invision Power Board that checks various user information against a central database (hosted on IPS servers) to detect if user is a spammer and takes administrator-specified actions depending on the results.
Invision Power Converge
editInvision Power Converge (officially abbreviated to IP.Converge[3]) is a piece of software that allows "ready" web applications to share login details, meaning that a user only has to register once to be able to log into all the applications connected to the Converge installation. The applications connected to Converge do not have to be on the same server. IP.Board, Joomla and Wordpress are able to be imported into Converge and documentation is available to allow third-party developers make their applications connect to Converge as well should they wish to.
The latest version of IP.Converge (1.1.0) was released on 25 June 2009.[4] It is free to anyone who has an active IP.Board license It is an encoded application in IonCube format.
Discontinued products
editBefore Davtra edited.
Invision Power Services has, in the past, released products and services which have since been discontinued.
- Invision Power Dynamic and Invision Power Nexus. Invision Power Dynamic was a commercial content management system in development for several years. It was eventually turned into a module in Invision Power Nexus.[5] Invision Power Nexus refers to two products. The first was a billing software in development for several years, it was eventually turned into a module in a new product, which also bore the name Invision Power Nexus.[6] The second Invision Power Nexus had several betas released[7] but was also discontinued in 2007.[8]
- Invision Power File Manager, (previously Aquonics File Manager), a multi-user web-based file management system.
- Invision Power Top Site List, a top site list featuring integration into Invision Power Board. Members have now gone on to create their own mod topsite for people to use on their boards. The link can be found in the different links below.
- Invision Power Chat, a rebranded Java-based chat solution which was integrated into Invision Power Board. While IP.Board still offers integration with two separate chat systems by default, all support and billing is handled by the chat vendor.
References
edit- ^ IPS: A New Focus - Invision Power Services
- ^ IPS Beyond Opened - Invision Power Services
- ^ http://www.invisionpower.com/products/converge/
- ^ http://www.invisionpower.com/products/converge/
- ^ http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-2097-Nexus-and-Dynamic-Legacy/
- ^ http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-2097-Nexus-and-Dynamic-Legacy/
- ^ http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=237583
- ^ http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-2490-IP-Nexus/