I have read a lot of messages about the Professional Edition and the controversy surrounding it but I have seen very few or zero questions about what is the support that Corp provides exactly. I asked a few questions in the forum here a few weeks ago with no replies. Either no one cares or no ones knows but people just argue at the top level about how the pro edition was presented clearly.
I have depper concerns:
1- When someone purcahses the PE edition and finds a bug. What the process of the person getting it fixed and how is it different than reporting the bug in Gemeni and getting it in the next version. What am I getting extra in the Pro edition in terms of bug fixes?
2- It seems the support promised by the corp is only for the core part of DNN. Why aren't the modules included? I mean the modules are packaged and installed with DNN. DNN without the modules is pretty useless. Many reportsed bugs are in the modules.
3- Which version of DNN 5.0 the corp is going to support? This is not clear. It could be a month from now or a year. It seems this is dependent on how the corp feels about the stability of DNN 5 and not really about version #. Version numbers are arbitrary and if 5.1 is going to be the stable one, there can be many 5.0.x coming out. So basically no one knows when the PE will officially migrate to DNN 5.0.
4- This is my personal opinion. I asked for betas or release candidates for 5 but it seems we will get 5.0.x versions out which are somehow beta releases disguised as official releases. Now way of 'forcing' people to try and test these versions. Because there are no quilms about the number of bugs being released.
My adivce for people who want to use DNN 5.0, start using it and report the bugs you find and stay away from the politics and arguments. This is way how DNN will be going forward. Make your choices. If you really need to use 5.x and can't wait for the next releases, fix the issues yourself.