7x in three stages: 2014, 2022, 2023
This page is for reporters who found three different years for "when 7x started" and want to know which one is right. All three are right: each marks a different stage. This page explains them and gives sentences you can print.
Contents
- The three stages
- Before the stages: Brookins Consulting
- Which year to use
- Sentences you can print
- Sources
The three stages
| Stage | Year | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| The idea | 2014 | The initial idea, started quietly: the se7enx.com domain was registered and the fork of the entire ecosystem, every resource of it, was prepared. |
| The start | 2022 | The project started. |
| The launch | December 2023 | The project was launched: the company works under the name 7x, the first outside change of the fork is merged on 11 December 2023, and 6.0.0 follows on 1 January 2024. |
7x's own account of the three stages is recorded on Who is 7x?.
Before the stages: Brookins Consulting
7x is the same company as Brookins Consulting, which was founded in 2001 and had worked with the software since its first versions. Brookins Consulting released extensions, gave forum support for many years, hosted eZpedia from 2006, and sent pull requests to the code base from 2014 (The eZ Publish years). Through all three stages it is one company.
Which year to use
| Your sentence is about | Use |
|---|---|
| When the company was founded | 2001, as Brookins Consulting |
| When the idea of 7x and the fork began, or when se7enx.com was registered | 2014 |
| When the project to carry the code forward started | 2022 |
| When 7x took over the code base and launched its project | December 2023 |
| When the first release of the line came out | 1 January 2024 (6.0.0) |
| When the company took over leadership of the project | 2023 (README: "7x took over leadership of the project ... in 2023") |
Sentences you can print
"7x, which grew out of Brookins Consulting, launched its project to carry the code base forward in
December 2023, after preparing it since 2014."
"The company registered se7enx.com in 2014, started the project in 2022 and launched it in December 2023."
"7x released version 6.0.0 on 1 January 2024, a month after its launch."Sources
| Stage | Public sources that mark it |
|---|---|
| 2001 | "I founded 7x in 2001 as Brookins Consulting" (https://graham.se7enx.com/7x) |
| 2014 | 7x's account (18 October 2026); "rebranded in 2014" (https://graham.se7enx.com/7x) |
| 2022 | 7x's account; "Previously before 2022, 7x was called Brookins Consulting" (README.md) |
| December 2023 | "In 2023/12 Brookins Consulting an eZ Partner in USA ... renamed the company to '7x'" (https://se7enx.com/about/exponential-hosting-usa); December 2023 |
Each public source names the stage it describes, which is why the years differ (Who is 7x?).
Related pages
- 7x for reporters
- Timeline for reporters
- Verifying dates
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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