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Price: $85 lease / year or $160 to own
Installation: You will need to install vBulletin yourself. Installation by vBulletin Staff is also available for an extra fee ($135)
Trial Version: No, but demo available
Support: Helpdesk, and forums. Phone support for extra fees
Required Software: PHP, mysql
Description:

vBulletin is a bulletin board system for larger websites.

Both licenses include 12 months e-mail support and access to the latest versions. Both expire after 12 months and a leased license must be renewed in order to continue to run the software. An owned license renewal, for upgrades and e-mail support for 12 months costs $30. 

Both of the above have the vBulletin brand, but branding free is an
additional $120. Installation is $135. Phone support $60 for 1 month, 6 months $180 & 12 months $300.00.

There are lots of hacks available via non affiliated sites and varous independent forums.

http://www.vbulletin.org/ provides official modifications. 

Many sites start with PHPBB (open source) and then move to vBulletin. If you are expecting a large user base you may want to invest in  vBulletin to avoid any user transition and changeover issues.


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Industrial-strength forum software 10
Author: robds1 Date: 2008-05-17 17:23:33
Vbulletin is industrial-strength forum software.

It scales very well (to thousands of users) and has an extensive array of rules (for example, not allowing a user to have an avatar until xx number of posts).

If you have a large, diverse board you are most likely going to have loud disagreements among members from time to time. Vbulletin is a Godsend in that there is an "ignore" function so that users are not shown posts of people they choose to ignore!

Vbulletin costs more than just about every other forum software product, but it is an excellent investment. It is the "gold standard" for serious websites.
  
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