[WEB4LIB] Blog: Open source vs. commercial

[Alnisa Allgood]

At 11:58 AM -0700 4/28/05, Shaw Yu wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Would you please share your view/experience about using open source blog
>software (e.g., Nucleus) vs. commercial one (e.g., Movable Type)?
>

Well I'm into PHP solutions, and I think one of the best in the field 
is Expression Engine http://www.pmachine.com/expressionengine/ which 
is a commercial product.  I've used it to develop blogs, nonprofit 
sites, commercial sites, a neighborhood website, catalogs of data, 
intermixed cross-tabulation reports, specialized forms, and other PHP 
apps right into with little issue.   It's officially on my highly 
recommended list.

That said, WordPress is also good, a bit more basic, but perfectly 
acceptable and far better than a number of open source CMS tools. If 
your just looking for a straight forward blogging tool that's free, 
and uses PHP/MySQL and has a nice site of pre-defined templates, then 
that's probably the direction I'd send you.

Alnisa