As popularity increased for Bungie, a Microsoft Gaming Studio, the number of visitors to its website rapidly increased.   With phenomenal success from previous games including Halo and Myth as well the highly anticipated release of Halo2, Bungie felt the need to update their existing website which would require completely redesigned forums built for the .NET platform.   In order to support the enormous user load Bungie already had, they knew that they would need a forum solution that was massively scalable and extremely fast.   With this in mind, Bungie evaluated outside vendors who not only specialized in forum software but one with experience developing on a Microsoft platform. After extensive testing, it became evident that Ideal Science was best suited for what Bungie required and the two teamed up to create Ideal BB.NET.   Here’s how Ideal Science and Microsoft worked together to build a scalable, fast and powerful .NET forum solution ideal for customers ranging from a small business to an ISP. 

“Ideal wanted their .NET product to be everything we needed in a forum; high performance, stable, scalable, and feature rich.  By working with them, we were able to create a better product than either of us would alone.”

– Tom Gioconda, Web Development Engineer for Bungie