As mentioned in our newsletter earlier this month the price of PHPAudit will be increasing from 1st June 2008.

This is part of our effort to standardise pricing across both PHPAudit and Iono, following our acquisition of the latter late last year. Changes were made to Iono previously in January and so these tweaks will bring PHPAudit into line with the pricing model going forward. This near-parity of pricing between PHPAudit and Iono allows our customers to choose the most suitable product based on features rather than price.

From 1^st June 2008, PHPAudit pricing will be as follows:
PHPAudit 250: $99.99 inc. 12 months of support & updates ($75 renewal fee for a further year)
PHPAudit 1000: $225 inc. 12 months of support & updates ($100 renewal fee for a further year)
PHPAudit 2500: $350 inc. 12 months of support & updates ($150 renewal fee for a further year)

The renewal pricing for our PHPAudit Unlimited customers will follow that of PHPAudit 2500, and so increases to $150 per year.

Complete parity of pricing is expected to be achieved towards the end of the year, following the necessary technical changes to both PHPAudit and Iono to support this.

Existing customers nearing the limit of their current license should consider upgrading prior to 1st June to beat the price rise. Equally existing PHPAudit Lite users and prospective customers may wish to purchase either a PHPAudit 1000 or PHPAudit 2500 license to future-proof themselves and avoid the price increase.

I was browsing through 2003 backups the other day when I ran across the very first version of PHPAudit. This version was never released to the general public. We used it internally for contract projects from 2002 until the official PHPAudit v1.0 release on August 6th, 2003.

Compared to the PHPAudit of today it’s quite lacking, but does give a good picture of how development has progressed through the years. I’ve made a few screenshots that show pretty much all there was to it back then.

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We are pleased to announce our newest product, m3|KB. After having gone through an extensive private beta testing period we feel the software is stable and ready for public distribution. This release makes m3|KB the first product built on our m3 framework. m3|KB is the spiritual successor to our older knowledge base software, Helpexec.

m3|KB hits the road running with all of the standard features you would expect in a knowledge base application and many more that you wouldn’t. Thanks to the m3 framework we have full support for localization, skin based templates, multiple front end profiles (w/ full source code) and many other modern features.

It has taken considerable time and effort to finally get to this point and with m3 we’ve adopted a new approach of doing things right from the start. Hopefully the effort put into development will be clear from the advanced features, smooth interface and documentation from the start.