Multiple stores in one commerce instance with WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1 Professional Edition

[Tobias]

I don't understand the scenarios for which the busniess edition of
WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1 is required. Can somebody tell me, for which
of the following scenarios the professional edition would be
sufficient and for which the business edition is required ?

scenario 1:
multiple stores in one site (instance) with different store front,
different business logic and different catalog assets

scenario 2:
multiple stores in one site (instance) with different store front,
shared business logic and different catalog assets

scenario 3:
multiple stores in one site (instance) with different store front,
shared business logic and shared catalog assets, but different prices
for every store

Thanks in Advance
Tobias Lehmann

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Post by Tobias
I don't understand the scenarios for which the busniess edition of
WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1 is required. Can somebody tell me, for which
of the following scenarios the professional edition would be
sufficient and for which the business edition is required ?
multiple stores in one site (instance) with different store front,
different business logic and different catalog assets
multiple stores in one site (instance) with different store front,
shared business logic and different catalog assets
multiple stores in one site (instance) with different store front,
shared business logic and shared catalog assets, but different prices
for every store
Thanks in Advance
Tobias Lehmann

Pretty much none of these requires Enterprise. Setting up eSites
requires Enterprise, and a number of the other business features
similarly. eSites gives you the ability to create stores with the UI,
rather than the SAR process for a large number of stores (similar to a
yahoo or google build your own site concept), but it is fairly
limiting actually and more of a demo of what you could do (like most
of the UI both Accelerator, Sales Center, Management Center, Sample
stores) than a finished product (blatant opinion of guy working with
product for more than 10 years on 100+ actual projects)