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Jive Software has recently discontinued Forums Silver, and Forums Gold costs $25,000 per CPU, which is a bit out of our price range. We were hoping to use Crowd's Jive integration to have a forum with SSO, but it appears we're now out of luck. Furthermore, Jive is trying to sell us Clearspace instead, but since we already have Jira and Confluence, that seems like a redundant bit of functionality. I can't imagine we're the only Atlassian shop in this boat. It would be really great for us if Crowd would integrate with some forum software other than Jive Forums.
[CWD-1007] Integrate with forum software other than Jive
Adrian Pillinger
added a comment - Just noticed that the link in one of the comments was broken. Here is the working link:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWDEXT/JForum+Authentication+Client
Adrian Pillinger
added a comment - Just noticed that the link in one of the comments was broken. Here is the working link:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWDEXT/JForum+Authentication+Client 
Nat Budin
added a comment - The Codegeist JForum plugin seems to work well for what it does - namely, allowing centralized authentication through Crowd in JForum. It would be nicer if it would also provide SSO through Seraph, but we can probably live without that.
In general, JForum seems like an OK forum solution. It's not as featureful as Jive Forums is, but it seems like it has the basic functionality we want. The only somewhat worrisome thing, from my perspective, is that development on JForum seems to have completely stopped since the author has decided to completely rewrite it from scratch.
Nat Budin
added a comment - The Codegeist JForum plugin seems to work well for what it does - namely, allowing centralized authentication through Crowd in JForum. It would be nicer if it would also provide SSO through Seraph, but we can probably live without that.
In general, JForum seems like an OK forum solution. It's not as featureful as Jive Forums is, but it seems like it has the basic functionality we want. The only somewhat worrisome thing, from my perspective, is that development on JForum seems to have completely stopped since the author has decided to completely rewrite it from scratch. 
David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Hi Nat,
How've you gotten on with JForum? Has it met your needs? Any feedback we can pass onto other users?
Cheers,
Dave.
David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Hi Nat,
How've you gotten on with JForum? Has it met your needs? Any feedback we can pass onto other users?
Cheers,
Dave. Nat Budin
added a comment - Thanks, Justin and David! I tried out the JForum plugin and at first glance, it seems to work just fine. I'll have to do a more in-depth evaluation of JForum and figure out whether it works for our use cases, but this does seem promising. Thanks for the pointer!
Nat Budin
added a comment - Thanks, Justin and David! I tried out the JForum plugin and at first glance, it seems to work just fine. I'll have to do a more in-depth evaluation of JForum and figure out whether it works for our use cases, but this does seem promising. Thanks for the pointer! David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Nat,
Let us know how you go with JForum, or if there's any other forum software you think fits your needs better... I'm guessing you're going to be the first of many in this boat 
Cheers,
Dave.
David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Nat,
Let us know how you go with JForum, or if there's any other forum software you think fits your needs better... I'm guessing you're going to be the first of many in this boat
Cheers,
Dave. 
Justin Koke
added a comment - Hi Nat,
We have had a user submit a entry to Codegeist adding JForums support to Crowd: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CODEGEIST/JForum+Authentication+Client
I don't know much about JForums besides it is open source and doesn't cost $25K per CPU! and it has a very friendly BSD license.
http://www.jforum.net/download.jsp
I would suggest checking it out and letting the developer Adrian Pillinger know of any issues/improvements you can see.
Regards,
Justin
Justin Koke
added a comment - Hi Nat,
We have had a user submit a entry to Codegeist adding JForums support to Crowd: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CODEGEIST/JForum+Authentication+Client
I don't know much about JForums besides it is open source and doesn't cost $25K per CPU! and it has a very friendly BSD license.
http://www.jforum.net/download.jsp
I would suggest checking it out and letting the developer Adrian Pillinger know of any issues/improvements you can see.
Regards,
Justin
JForum appears to be doing the job.