At the end of January, we unveiled our first release of PureChat. Today I'm happy and proud to announce version 1.1 of PureChat, available for download at http://www.axosoft.com/products/purechat.aspx.

Version 1.1 includes some very cool new features, the most notable of which is we've done away with the requirement that the hosting site be an ASP.Net web site. You still need a .NET 2.0 or 3.5 server to install PureChat, but the site that you want people to request chats from no longer has to be ASP.Net based. What we did for 1.1 was remove the web user control, and replace it with a very small snippet of HTML and javascript. Just drop that snippet anywhere on your web site, and you are all set. :)

Another announcement is (I believe) a first for Axosoft, in that we are also selling the source code, both for single-site licensing, as well as for redistribution. Now if you want to add things like database functionality, or include PureChat in your own application for redistribution, you have that capability.

We're looking forward to the next few months to see what overall response is, and what new features we'll be adding to PureChat down the road.