Unfortunately, no. Because Discus and Discus Professional are distributed with the full source code, it is not possible for us to program our products to "expire" after a certain period of time. It is for this reason that we cannot offer free trial periods for Discus Professional.

Installing freeware Discus onto a web site will confirm that the web site meets our system requirements, which means that Discus Professional should work on that web site with the same settings. Additionally, it is possible to upgrade a freeware Discus board to Discus Professional without losing any messages or other board content, according to the procedure stated on our installation page. Finally, many of the features exclusive to Discus Professional can be evaluated by trying out the DiscusWare Support Forum, and DiscusWare will be happy to answer any additional questions.

We hope that this information will allow you a suitable method to evaluate Discus Professional for your use.