This actually scares me! What is the difference between "DotNetNuke Professional Edition" and the 4.9 version available right now? "DotNetNuke Professional Edition will include the mature DotNetNuke 4.9 core release..." what does this really mean? Does this mean that future releases of DNN will offer limited functionality/developer access unless one pays for the DotNetNuke Professional Edition? OR Is this only a difference in the level of support DNN users/devlopers will get based on what they have contributed/purchased? Please clarify the intensions of DNN Corp in this regard. Thanks

I hope you are correct. I don't want to develop in worse DNN framework compared to Professional Edition. It might be a bad idea to me.

I'll echo you there Mitchel.  From what I gathered at OpenForce the new Professional edition will actually be a version or two behind the "community" edition as they want to make sure it is more stable.  So the first version of Professional will actually be on a 4.9 platform whilst the community edition will, by then, be on 5.0.  Of course the big part of professional is indeed the support offered with it. 

What that will all give you are still details they are trying to work out but more or less you won't have to resort to the forums for all the questions anymore.  You'll have access to a trained (?) support representative and probably various levels of escalation and ultimately it sounded like you could have access to a developer if it got that far (deep rooted bugs).

The jury is out whether I'll end up getting the professional edition or not when it comes out... I've had support like that on another product in the past and I was anything but impressed.  We'll see though, I have high hopes for them and want them to succeed.

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