I understand StudioPress Sites will be continually and aggressively be improved.

But Rainmaker will have minimum improvements will be done with Rainmaker or any support desk improvement.

Their top priority now is to create monthly revenue and Rainmaker is no longer the number 1 priority.

It appears I will be canceling my Rainmaker subscription and go with StudioPress Sites which is their number 1 priority and will experience the greatest improvements.

The big clue that Studiopress Sites will be a better choice than Rainmaker is in the quoted statement

"StudioPress, Synthesis, Copyblogger, Authority, and DCI are not part of the deal and remain separate entities".

They are keeping the best and giving away much of their interest in Rainmaker.

I owned Premise along time ago. We experienced the same thing. The only difference, they discontinued the development of Premise but appear not to be discontinuing Rainmaker development yet.

I don't know if they will discontinue the Rainmaker Platform product. It appears they have lost interest again and don't feel they can make it much better. But again, the big clue is this statement.

"StudioPress, Synthesis, Copyblogger, Authority, and DCI are not part of the deal and remain separate entities".

They are keeping the best and reducing their ownership in the less quality product.

It will interesting to see if Chris Lema is changing his site and going with some other platform. I read somewhere he was.