While Enterprise is "only" $5,000 in the US that is still too much for a small business such as ours. What I find somewhat frustrating is something I have seen before but which I think is a shame - the implication that pragmatic change control procesess are only really relevant to the enterprise customer. It's absolutely essential for a small business like ours that we verify and test changes before we roll them into production, especially when we are working with a partner/customer.

While this is certainly the case for major changes, it's even true for small content changes. By way of example, with my current mickey-mouse, home grown ASP.Net dev/production environment I can make a change on our "test server" (a parallel server we have in the cloud), send a note to a major customer to review the changes we are making for them and - on their sign off - do a simple XCopy to put that into production. It's simple, quick and gives us the ability to fully verify a change before going anywhere near our production environment. Honestly, that just seems prudent to me.

Without going through hoops (or paying a lot of money), it doesn't seem that DNN offers me this. I suspect that I don't need all the richness of "Content Staging" (I haven't looked in detail at this feature because I know it's beyond our means). But the basic idea of making changes on a non-production server - whether small or large - seems so obvious to me for anyone running a business that - well, it seem like Professionals (hint) would use it :-)

IMHO, content staging (or some streamlined version of it) should be a Professional feature. The fact that Kanika has to spend 3-4 days working out internals of DNN to do this is a shame, to say the least.

Thanks.

Mark