What about open source?
How will this affect future releases of DotNetNuke?
Should we start looking for a new open source CMS alternative for ASP.NET?
I think people of DNN joined collective paranoia and insanity of recession and started inventing new ways to get money. I'm sure this is not a good way to go. Sooner or later the community releases will become more and more buggy and we will be forced to buy the "PROFESSIONAL" version (whatever this means). At the end, my view is that DNN will become one more commercial CMS out there.
Do they want to say that the releases of DNN where unprofessional up till now?
That previous versions of DNN are just for amateurs?
Nice way of demeaning your own product.
And the fact there is no price listed on the site, but a simple contact form, means that they are probably just probing the market to see the response.
We as a community should give them our response.
Everybody that uses DNN should go to this address and give their voice about these changes
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Home/Forms/Purchase/tabid/1241/Default.aspx
For the end of this post I leave you with this Wired article
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The worst thing is that DNN Corp. is going to make money on all the community contributions, which seems to be somewhat unfair :( If you wish to purchase their "professional" support, you pay $6,000 for 20 incidents. Well, it's more than what you pay for a commercial CMS product such as Kentico including unlimited support. Do they think we are all stupid???
@Peter - Just to clarify here - Everyone who has ever sold a DotNetNuke module, skin or service makes money because we as a community contributed our time and effort to create DotNetNuke. As an active member of the community, DotNetNuke Corp should have an equal opportunity to benefit from a product which we freely give away.
The $6000 and 20 incident information comes from our old SLA program and does not represent our current offering. DotNetNuke is priced at $1999 per instance which includes unlimited support.
Some thin to take in consider:
• The prize is to high.
• Known kay people are erring to much money.
• The prize of renewal after baying professional has not been specified.
• If you opt in to professional edition there is now way out. That is you can not downgrade your site.
• Unpredictable behavior, that is sponsorship, then change is sponsorship, the professional edition. What is next if you opt in?
• The unpredictable behavior may live you stuck, that is, you have a site with a lot of contant stuck in a version whit now other way than to pay up.
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