As far as I have been able to understand this far, the differences between the PE and CE is the level of support. But yesterday I received a mail from Tom Kress, Vice President of Sales for DotNetNuke Corp. And there I can read that there will be differences in features in DNN 5.1:

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A detailed roadmap will be published later this week, but for now, here are the features for DNN 5.1 due in May:

Professional Edition Only:
- Workflow: Advanced content approval, versioning and Control Center for centralized content approval
- Scalability: Caching provider for webfarms
- Security: Granular permissions, vulnerability maintenance
- Analytics: Seamless Google Analytics integration and custom segmentation
- Network: File integrity checking, health monitoring
- Advanced Control Panel: Easier and faster ability to perform common portal admin. tasks

Professional and Community Editions:
- Workflow: Basic content approval
- UX: Improved user experience
- Content meta data: Categories, tagging, rating and commenting

</quote>

Does this mean that CE and PE will go different paths in development and features? As I have understood it this far the difference is that  CE will be kind of testplatform and features and fixes in the CE will be implemented in the PE when they are stable. Have I been wrong? Will P.E. and C.E. be two different products?

/Jari Ivanoff

Can anyone expand on what this "enhancment" might provide?

We have HUGE problems with adding child portals, installing modules, updating host settings etc because of the caching process that currently exists in DNN v4.9.0.

Basically we have 220+ child portals, each having 10+ pages and each page having many modules. Whenever trying to do one of the above we have timeout issues as DNN attempts to cycle trhough every module on every tab within every portal.

So will this new caching provider help resolve these issues?

If so we will be VERY keen

If this is true, than it truly is really a sad day for DotNetNuke. I'm sorry to see the community edition die a slowly death, it was a great framework, but if these are the initial features the professional edition is going to receive that I think we're alot closer to a public fork than I originally estimated.