I came across this website and the stuff mentioned is just pure speculations. http://geekswithblogs.net/bscarbeau/archive/2009/11/19/136408.aspx

1- DotNetNuke Community Edition is recommended for websites using only 1GB or Less of disk space?
Why? Do the two versions behave differently if a site uses more than 1G disk space?

2- DotNetNuke Community Edition is recommended for websites using only 1GB or Less of database space.
Why? Does the pro version give you a license for SQL Server Standard which allows for more than 1G or do the two versions behave differently if the database size is approaching 1G?

3- DotNetNuke Community Edition is recommended for websites with only 1 Portal.
Really? I have tens of portals running on the community version. AFAIK, the community edition has no portal number limits.

4- DotNetNuke Community Edition is designed for small websites with only 25 - 100 User Accounts.
Again do the two version behave differently once you go over 25 users?

5- DotNetNuke Community Edition is free and will not impact a small budget of $0 - $3k.
The definition of a small business is very subjective. a 5k business can be considered a small business and a 25k business can be considered a small business. It depends who you're talking to. You don't think a $2000 software will impact a 5k business? I am not sure but isn't $2000 a yearly fee also?

6- DotNetNuke Community Edition is much simpler for an organization with only 1 - 15 Employees to adequately leverage.
Looks like these numbers are guesstimate. You should say something about maybe concurrent active employees.

7- DotNetNuke Community Edition is designed for Small Business Websites.
What is a small business site?

The community edition can handle much more and it's not based on ANY hard fiogures. You can put it on a powerful server and might perform better than a poorly configured web farm running mediocre servers.

IMO, this guidance is misguided!

I have to say I agree with you, I have clients running CE that are massivly larger than this without issue.  A few examples of CE config specs that I have seen or worked on

• SQL Server db of 10 Gb, 1,000,000 users, and 20,000 pages
• 1,600 Portals, 3000 users with access to all portals
• 5,000 portals, and close to 500K users

Don't get me wrong, I truly believe that PE has benefits for some, but I think that this information is misleading.

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Nope but after I saw my database was up at 10GB I ran a query to find out why and came across that table eating 6GB of useless space.  Needless to say I nukified it and then turned off my indexer since we aren't using the built-in search anymore (implemented Microsoft Search Server).  Good to hear it'll be fixed in 5.2 regardless since I do have several clients on the platform and not using MS Search.

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