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> bbPress
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: Open Source

Description: bbPress is plain and simple forum software, plain and simple. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean. But don’t let its simplicity deceive you; underneath the gleam, it’s got some powerful features and is highly customizable.

> Blursoft MetaForum
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: Free
Description: Blursoft MetaForum sprang from a need that simply was not being filled by any other forum software. We concentrated on the user, not the system. We maximized the efficiency of the click-economy. You shouldn't need to go 12 pages deep to find the information you want and you should be able to see all you want at once while filtering out what you don't. We've rethought forums from the ground up and simply made them easier and better to use.

> BurningBoard
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: Commercial
Description: ... is a professional discussion board system ... is easily to be integrated into your homepage design ... is extendable in functionality ... supports multilingual usage

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> Community Server
Web Server: Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Programming Language: ASP.NET; C#
Database: Microsoft SQL Server
License: Free and Commercial
Description: Community Server is the award winning platform for rapidly enabling online communities and includes all the integrated tools, such as discussion forums, email lists, newsgroups, weblogs (blogs), file galleries, content management, and more to help enable you to create your community presence quickly and easily!

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> E-Blah
Web Server: Apache
Programming Language: Perl
Database: Texfiles
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: E-Blah is a perl-based forum system that can power your website community with a fast, free, secure, stable, and very reliable backend. E-Blah boasts thousands of features, some of which includes sub-forums, member groups, and portal, among many others.

> Invision Power Board
Web Server: Apache
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL
License: Commercial
Description: Invision Power Services is a leading provider of site and community-building products and services based in Virginia, USA.
With a focus on developing both high quality products and first-class service, we are able to meet the needs of any size business.

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> JForum
Web Server: Tomcat, Resin, JBoss
Programming Language: Java
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, HSQLDB, SQL Server
License: Free BSD
Description: JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Javatm. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.
Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend.
Best of all, JForum is freely available under the BSD Open Source license.

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> MercuryBoard
Web Server: Apache
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description:MercuryBoard is a powerful message board system dedicated to raw speed with a mixture of features, ease of use, and ease of customization coupled with expandability, and diverse language services. Now just over two years in the making, version 1.0.0 is an immensely stable, thoroughly tested, and well-written piece of internet software ready for any webserver, running on PHP versions as low as 4.0.0 and MySQL versions as low as 3.22.

> miniBB
Web Server: Apache
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: Want to make your own discussion board? miniBB ( = mini bulletin board) is a free forum software, original PHP message board script, you can build online community on. Security, speed and stability - three S's of our conferencing software concepts.
Based on original technology, miniBB provides everything to make your web discussions fast, simple and attractive for visitors. First of all, it's a content- and support-oriented board.

> mvnForum
Web Server: Tomcat
Programming Language: java (Jsp/Servlet)
Database: MySQL
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: mvnForum is an open source, powerful, easy to use, easy to setup bulletin board (forum) built on the Java J2EE technology (Jsp/Servlet). mvnForum is compatible with any Servlet Containers which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. mvnFourm is free, opensource and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

> MyBB
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: Other Free / Open Source License
Description: A lot of thought has gone into the MyBB interface to make it easy to use. MyBB uses a standard discussion board structure, so your visitors will feel familiar with the way MyBB works. Your visitors can use the MyBB user control panel to change the way they view discussions. They can also easily start and reply to discussions and markup their posts. The forum administrators and moderators can use MyBB's inline editing and moderation features to control discussion and keep the forum tidy.

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> Phorum
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: Free / Phorum License
Description: Phorum is a little different from the other web based message boards out there. It was designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features.
The group of developers of Phorum had very different needs. Some needed software that could run a single forum with over 2,000 new posts per day. Others hosted over 4,000 forums on one server. The end result is a versatile product that can serve anyone's needs.

> phpBB
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, Access/ODBC
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.

> PunBB
Web Server: preferably Apache
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards. PunBB has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages.

> SMF - Simple Machines Forum
Web Server: Apache, ISS, all that support PHP
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: Simple Machines License (Free)
Description: Simple Machines Forum - SMF in short - is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other. SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software, and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!

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> UBB.threads
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL 3.x and 4.x (will not run on MySQL version 5.x.)
License: Commercial
Description: Since 1997, thousands of websites have chosen UBB.threads for their community solution. Whether you need a community solution to integrate with your website or you want your community to be your website, UBB.threads is your answer. No matter if you have a small, medium or large site, our software can scale to your needs.

> Unclassified NewsBoard
Web Server: Apache
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: The Unclassified NewsBoard (short UNB) is an open-source, PHP-based internet bulletin board system, mostly like those you may already know. But the difference is in a lot of details that make your life with this board, both as administrator and user, much easier. You’ll be surprised how easy things can be and how fast you can work with such a system! The Unclassified NewsBoard has a lot of innovative features the world has never seen before in this way. I run this project in my spare time, mostly because over two years ago, none of the freely available forum systems fully convinced me and because I found fun in that job.


> UseBB
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: UseBB.net is the official website of UseBB, a light and Open Source PHP 4 and MySQL based forum package, distributed freely under the GPL license. Developed with simplicity and usability in mind, UseBB is ideal for small to medium sized websites which need a clear and efficient forum package.

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> Vanilla
Web Server: Almost any server
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: In Vanilla you can quickly and easily see which discussions you haven't read, and how many new comments are in each discussion. You can run advanced searches through discussion topics, comments, and users. You can change the way Vanilla operates using per-user preferences. Finally, you have a very customizable account profile where you can provide pictures of yourself and add as much information about yourself as you like.

> vBulletin
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: Commercial
Description: vBulletin is a powerful, scalable and fully customizable forums package for your web site. It has been written using the Web's quickest-growing scripting language; PHP, and is complemented with a highly efficient and ultra fast back-end database engine built using MySQL.
vBulletin is the ideal community solution for all medium-to-large sites.

> Viscacha
Web Server: N/A
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: Viscacha is a free bulletin board system with an integrated content management system. The intention of the software engineers is to combine the current standards with new and user friendly features. The system supports plugins and components for easily extending the core system. Viscacha uses an database abstraction layer to support as many databases as possible. Currently there is only a layer for the open source database engine MySQL. With this software you can easily set up a complete (personal) homepage. The CMS extends the bulletin board system to have a homepage which is connected to the community.

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> w-Agora
Web Server: Apache
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, mSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL server
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Description: More than "just another web BBS/forum software", w-Agora (Web-Agora) is a powerful database-driven communications system designed to be adapted to a various needs.

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> XMB
Web Server: Apache
Programming Language: PHP
Database: MySQL
License: N/A
Description: XMB is a lightweight PHP forum software with all the features you need to support a growing community. With outstanding community support and contribution, you will find XMB to be easy to setup, customize, and enhance.