Keyvan Nayyeri

Now it's time to talk about Community Server 2008! Rob Howard announces the immediate availability of Community Server 2008 after his webinar webcast about an introduction to Community Server 2008.

A few days ago Telligent released the Release Candidate version to public for final testing and now they drop the RTW.

There isn't any new major feature or improvement in RTW in comparison with prior Betas and RC and as I had written before, 2008 is a new version primary focused on social networking, advanced reporting and extensibility options.

Community Server API is enhanced as well and Telligent is putting more effort on enterprise scenarios for Community Server. New licensing and pricing reminds us of the fact that Community Server is going from smaller sites to bigger ones and Graffiti wants to be a replacement for it for small sites.

With the final release of Community Server 2008, Telligent also refreshed the official website with a new beautiful theme that has many new sections to showcase the product. Recently they also switched from .org domain to .com which was being used for Community Server hosted edition for a while.

It seems that the SDK isn't available yet which is a regular thing after the years and it takes a short while to be ready.

However, this is yet another new version of Community Server and it's interesting to see the progress behind this product from the early days to now. I feel old now!