I would doubt you actually had redEVENT v2.x series running anywhere for long.

We got it running on educational portals with 100.000 students using it as a joint course registration system for 50 different educational institutions across the country.

Trust me - there is no bigger bugs or nothing like that - but yes it still is in beta as the version number 2.0b75 (currently) also clearly shows.

So there is absolutely no reason what so ever to fix anything - you need to set it up correctly and yes we have perhaps the event system that offers the absolutely most freedom and possibilities of any of the event systems for Joomla as ours contains a CCK style system where you can create dynamic fields for events og the indivual days on different venues where you have the events.

You can completely rebuild and alter almost every visible view in the frontend through the extensive tagging system - there is a built in textlibrary system to optimize the processes of putting in standard content - you can do completely invidualized sign up forms, or 4 different ways of signing up etc.

And lets finally make a point clear - you will never pay for redEVENT - you get complete access to redCOMPONENT when you sign up for a subscription giving you around 20 different extensions + addons for as little as 29 euro - which makes it absolutely affordable by everyone.

Some of the customer was have made sites for with redEVENT had gotten offers from closed source systems on more then 100.000 Euro to attain the same funcationality as redEVENT offers to all.

The only part of you review that could contain a little to it would be the documentation - as we just added in a massive new update some of the newest features still hasnt gone into the documentation, but then again with us having released more then 50 new updates over the last year things are moving quite quickly and we'd rather spend time brining quality features quicker then updating the documentation constantly.

Ps. redEVENT is not a calendar system - its a complete event handling cck powered dynamic system that just happens to contain calendar views and modules as well.

Reading the first line on the website is really a huge step towards understanding what your downloading:

"redEVENT is a brand new Joomla 1.5 native MVC event component. Build over the popular but yet limited event component eventlist, the redEVENT fork along with its 100% integration to redFORM has taken the ease and flexibility of creating and managing events and bookings to a whole new level."

Beyond that redEVENT and redFORM is light years away from what eventlist offers and as such the flexibility and dynamics of redEVENT integrated with redFORM can not be compared nor paralleled with what tventlist has to offer - but ofcause if you dont need anything more then eventlist can offer its not to hard to figure out you should get that ;)

Also with updates up to 3-4 times a week and a roadmap for constant integrations to 3rd party components and a continues development of redEVENT, redFORM and redCOMPETITION we offer a completely different kind of extension service then a freetime rarely updated extension does.