Really confused
 

Ok I`m not an existing customer of Vbulletin but am considering it. I`ve read all the moans and groans about the recent price hikes* doesn`t really bother me as long as the software does what its supposed to do. I currently run a forum and website using E107 and phpbb3

My question is this :

What is the difference between the standard 4.0 forum and the "publishing suite" ?

Is the publishing suite a website as well ? And if it is wouldn`t it be rather limited* wouldn`t customers be better off having the vbulletin forum running in convjunction with something like joomla for the main site ?

I`m trying to find out what the differences are between the 2 offers. As i understand it the basic forum is simply that and the publishing suite includes* blog* cms system (is this the website bit ?) and a few other bits and pieces

I was considering using joomla for main site and vbulletin for forum section. Could the publishing suite fulfill my needs with out needing to use Joomla ?

Any help would be most appreciated