Dolphin U is now Trident (again)
The name of the new platform has been bouncing back and forth quite a bit lately. Well, we thought we'd test your patience once again, hopefully cementing it once and for all. We are renaming Dolphin U to Trident. Moreover, we plan to move Trident downloads, support and discussion to another site soon. BoonEx will only be focused on Dolphin Pro.
Dolpin and Trident
For many years we've been living the dream of launching the Next Big Thing, talking about it, showing bits and pieces. Exciting stuff for some, but for many developers in BoonEx Market and for many web-masters all this talk only brought confusion and distraction. A lot of clients would hold off purchases waiting for the release and worrying about Extensions upgrades and compatibility. Many would consider Dolphin a soon-to-be-outdated platform.
The new system, however, turned out to be rather different from Dolphin, both in form and in purpose. Dolphin, meanwhile, continued to improve and gather great selection of 3rd-party extensions. And so, we clearly see now that Dolphin has to become Dolphin Pro and continue as a flagship BoonEx product, further improving.
In order to avoid any distraction, we're going to move all the Trident talk to another website. It would still be a BoonEx property, but without a lot of exposure on BoonEx.com website.
We will still honour the licensing promise, giving all commercial Dolphin licence holders the right to download any BoonEx-made Trident extensions for free.
In short term we plan to launch a couple of more Trident alphas (here at BoonEx) and then the first beta at another site (TBA).
Mid-term, we'll be releasing a major Dolphin Pro upgrade, as promised and then full release of Trident. Next Dolphin would have a new licensing policy.
Long-term, we're hoping to be able to bring the best ideas from Trident to Dolphin and most needed features of Dolphin to Trident. As soon as the gap is small enough, we'll be working on two-way migration scripts.
Consider it our New Year resolution.
Happy Holidays!
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
are we going to get prime license features for boonex trident or not ..or we have to buy prime license again to use trident product ??
p.s its a bad idea to create seperate site ...better create seperate page and new forum in this site...
seperate site means u starting from group up..which will take atleast a see more
A few questions: Will the user database here on boonex.com be transferred to the Trident website or be synchronized? Will the member database for the Trident site begin anew? Will there be a unified login system?
A little more detail on see more
As for Extensions, licenses, etc. - all that would just check back to Boonex.com servers, as it does now. Trident-based sites have Extensions storefront built-in, also checking back to Boonex.
So, for new web-masters everything should look and work pretty straightforward. They download from the new site, there's see more
http://www.boonex.com/n/security-and-code-quality-enhancements-in-dolphin
Development of Dolphin Pro has almost no changes from the development of Dolphin 7.1, but we will use the best principles from Trident over the time.
Another fucked up cms!
I spent 200+ USD on Dolphin, i can say it was a mistake!
Your problem, as far as i see, you lost your vision! No clear goals!
RIP Boonex
Which reason for this move?
1. you do not like what you have done with Trident and you put it on another site to not bother your actual business
2. You do not think that Trident can become Dolphin 8 so you put it on another site.
At the end your communication is so confusing ! Dolphin is not outdated and you call it a pro version. Sorry guys, but moving to another engine.
1. Dolphin U has been renamed to Trident to avoid confusion with the original Dolphin. The fact is, the codebase is becoming more different, and Trident is not necessarily backwards compatible. Furthermore, while Dolphin is optimized for social networking and other community sites, Trident is pretty bare and more of a core right now. This will eliminate the confusion a lot of people had see more
Note that free licenses (not Standard or Prime) no longer work and wouldn't qualify as having a license these days. If a paid license is missing, open a ticket here: http://www.boonex.com/help/contact
Please tell me:
1. What is the difference between Dolphin and Trident (I mean from the customers' point of view)? For whom the Dolphin is recommended and for whom - Trtident?
2. Do you have enough power to develop Dolphin and Trident both? Or the Dolphin is a dying project from now? It's impossible to develop for one man 2 scripts at one time: so, do you have 2 teams?
We build large websites and we (customers) should know the future of the Dolphin for 1-23 years see more
I had in mind (when I wrote "It's impossible to develop for one man 2 scripts ") that Bennex Team must be separated on 2 camps: Dolphine Camp & Trident Camp.
2. Since Trident is evolution of Dolphin, they have a lot of the same code. So some features just need to be transferred from one Trident to Dolphin.
The only thing I would suggest consideration would be to have strong links between boonex.com (dolphin) and 'other site' that would host Trident.
If you're not thinking to migrate the users, then at least make a join login...
Complete separation would make life difficult for your long term Dolphin community to keep on top of both scripts - which Im sure they would want to.
I personally have very limited time between family, life, work and personal see more
Joined login is a little tricky and potentially cumbersome, but at this stage I won't rule out some kind of bridge.
and in org module ..are we going to have different option like ..what type of org is that ..is it a company or college ..or any other type or org..