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| *'''Invision Power File Manager''', (previously ''Aquonics File Manager''), a multi-user web-based file management system. | *'''Invision Power File Manager''', (previously ''Aquonics File Manager''), a multi-user web-based file management system. | ||
| *'''Invision Power Top Site List''', a list that presents the most visited websites submitted by users. | *'''Invision Power Top Site List''', a list that presents the most visited websites submitted by users. | ||
| == Questionable business practices == | |||
| Invision Power Services, Inc has been questionably documented to attempt to revoke customer benefits, subscriptions, services, and ownership based on employee personal and sometimes public opinion of ethics, social status, and beliefs of their customers without prior notice, warning, or refund to their customers. | |||
| == References == | == References == | ||
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| Operating system | Cross Platform |
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| Platform | PHP / MySQL (MSSQL available) |
| Type | Forum software |
| Website | www.invisionpower.com |
Invision Power Services, Inc. is a software and web hosting company established in February 2002, best known for Invision Power Board. Its headquarters is based in Forest, Virginia.
History
Matthew Mecham and Charles Warner established Invision Power Services when they resigned from Jarvis Entertainment Group (JEG), a company (now Westlin Corporation) that acquired Mecham's forum software IkonBoard. Mecham promised his software would remain as freeware before and after the acquisition by JEG. The company proposed commercializing his software rather than maintaining its freeware status, and placed Mecham and Warner under pressure with the workload of IkonBoard that lead to their resignation. 85 percent of supporters from IkonBoard followed them to their new company and Ibforums (now Invision Power Board) came to be.
The Invision Power Board software license changed incrementally. The free software became an unlimited free trial and required payment to access official technical support. On September 27, 2004, the discontinuation and commercialization of the free software received criticism from the community, describing the movement as hypocritical as Invision Power Services was established in protest of Jarvis Entertainment Group.
Products and services
Software
Main article: Invision Power BoardInvision Power Board (abbreviated IP.Board) is a commercial Internet forum package written in PHP, similar to other forum software such as vBulletin and phpBB. Even though it is a commercial product, many communities are dedicated to creating and distributing free modifications for the software.
Hosting
Invision Power Services operates its own data center and servers to provide hosted installations of its software with maximum optimization, as well as web hosting on both shared and dedicated servers.
Discontinued products
Invision Power Services has, in the past, released products and services which have since been discontinued.
- Invision Power Dynamic. Invision Power Dynamic was a commercial content management system in development for several years.
- Invision Power File Manager, (previously Aquonics File Manager), a multi-user web-based file management system.
- Invision Power Top Site List, a list that presents the most visited websites submitted by users.
Questionable business practices
Invision Power Services, Inc has been questionably documented to attempt to revoke customer benefits, subscriptions, services, and ownership based on employee personal and sometimes public opinion of ethics, social status, and beliefs of their customers without prior notice, warning, or refund to their customers.
References
- "Contact Us". Invision Power Services, Inc. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
- ^ Zain, Bes (October 29, 2002). "Interview - Matt Mecham of Ibforms (Page 3)". SitePoint Pty. Ltd. Retrieved August 21, 2010. Cite error: The named reference "SitePoint 3" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- Warner, Charles (November 9, 2009). "How IPS uses its hosting services to grow and learn". Invision Power Services. Retrieved August 21, 2010.