Microsoft today released an early version of Oxite, an open source CMS (Content Management System) that can power anything from small blogs to big web sites.
Microsoft Oxite offers almost everything you need in a good blogging platform – anonymous or authenticated commenting, comment moderation, gravatar support, RSS feeds, pingbacks, trackbacks, SEO optimized clean URLs, multiple blogs, group blogging and support for custom pages.
Oxite vs WordPress and Blogger
Oxite, at least in the current incarnation, is not targeted at the end user, but at developers who need to create CMS applications using the Microsoft Platform.
Also, Oxite is based on the Microsoft stack – ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server – and therefore requires Windows hosting. One of the reasons behind WordPress’ growing popularity is the easy availability of cheap Linux based PHP and MySQL hosting.
It is obvious that Microsoft has no plans to grab market share from Blogger or WordPress as the Oxite software package is too complex for most consumers. However, if your organization is looking to build a blog platform or CMS from scratch, the IT team may well consider making Oxite as their base app.
Like WordPress and Blogger, Oxite does support the MetaWebLog API so it should be easy for end users to publish content via Windows Live Writer and other existing blog clients.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/oxite-microsoft-blogging-platform/5900/
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Reader Comments
As you mentioned, Oxite isn’t probably meant to compete with Wordpress and Blogger.
Apart from the linux hosting advantage, the support community for Wordpress is huge. Besides Oxite is a bit complex for people without tech background.
Written by Devakishor on 12.09.08
There aren’t only open source solutions, but also free editins of commercional software – we’re using the free edition of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET which is very powerful system.
Written by Mark on 12.10.08
This was an unexpected move from Microsoft. I’m working at SenseNet where we’re developing an open source .NET ECMS (meant to be an alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint). I wonder if they’ll be porting Oxite functionality to the closed source Sharepoint?
Written by Gergely Orosz on 12.12.08
Well, why this CMS is available for download from a 3rd party website. I don’t found Oxite in Microsoft official website.Moreover the link Amit have given is link . And many pages of this website gives 404 error pages. I feel sometimes that Microsoft after Bill gates …doesn’t remains as genius as it was once upon a time.
Written by Royalblogger on 12.12.08
@Mark
u r solution is not free
it has so many limitations (free Edition) while oxite is completely free and open source
Written by Ajay on 12.12.08