Wordpress Takes off the Gloves, Takes on Six Apart

Automattic, the company that administers Wordpress.com, has launched a Wordpress enterprise-level blogging platform.

ReadWriteWeb sums it up pretty well:

It’s pretty plain that Automattic is taking on SixApart with both the Enterprise
Edition and the continued growth and expansion of wordpress.com. Right now SixApart has
the lead in marketing and probably resources, but Wordpress is a strong innovator and has
an open source platform to attract developers. This little battle is far from over and
it’ll be interesting to watch it unfold!

There are a lot of fantastic blogging platforms out there, each with their inherent strengths. I like Wordpress for its flexibility. It’s unbelievably easy to design a very attractive, original blog just by making CSS and PHP tweaks to existing templates, which are available in a number of repositories.

Personally, Wordpress is my favorite system to work with. But I recognize that there are inherent advantages and disadvantages with every blogging platform. I’m eager to get my hands on a copy of their enterprise software to see what can be done with it and what its limitations are.

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