Microsoft develops open-source content-management system
Summary: Microsoft has developed and released via its CodePlex site an alpha version of a new open-source content-management system, codenamed "Oxite."
Microsoft has developed and released via its CodePlex site an alpha version of a new open-source content-management system, codenamed "Oxite."
Microsoft made the Oxite source code available for download on December 5. Oxite is available under the Microsoft Public License (MS-Pl), one of its OSI-certified open-source licenses.
From Microsoft's description of Oxite:
"Oxite provides you with a strong foundation you can build upon - pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with optional moderation), gravatar support, RSS feeds at any page level, support for MetaWebLog API (think Windows Live Writer integration made easy), web admin panel, support for Open Search format allowing users to search your site using their browser's search box, and more - so, you can spend time on designing a great experience."
Microsoft is positioning Oxite as more than just a blogging engine, claiming it can support even large Web sites. The company also is positioning the platform as customizable, allowing users to swap out Microsoft technologies, like database and search providers -- specifically, SQL Server and Live Search -- for non-Microsoft ones.
The Oxite content-management platform is "built to take full advantage of ASP.NET MVC but broken into assemblies so that even ASP.NET WebForm developers can use the data backend and utility code, supports use of Visual Studio Team Suite (DB Pro, Test, etc.), and Background Services Architecture (sending trackbacks, emails, etc. all done as a background process to prevent delays on the web site itself)," according to the Softies.
In searching for information on Oxite, I noticed a few folks wondering aloud why Microsoft felt a need to develop another content-management system, given that SharePoint Server provides content-management functionality. One obvious difference is the open-/closed-source aspect of the projects.
Any interest out there in an open-source CMS from Microsoft?
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So you are saying OSS developers are "hapless"?
I think the blogger was serious here and not looking for people to respond with the old and tired MS is evil BS. <br><br>
Microsoft has been under DoJ scrutiny for most of a decade now (only because of a liberal judge that was opening biased and should have been tossed from the bench) and if you do any amount of reading they are serious about entering into the open source world. <br><br>
They've got many projects in the works using an Apache style licensing scheme and are doing nothing more than what IBM, SUN and others are doing with open source. Finding a way to use it to an advantage. Isn't that the goal of OSS?
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Very small chance of success and only if...
Even then, concidering that there is a load of high quality CMS systems with long history, large support communitys & collections of 3r party add-ons. To start a CMS from scratch is for any company unlikely to be a success at this point.
Personally I have no interest for reason stated above *and* because of microsofts long and undeniable history of security flaws and otherwise way too often low usability/functioning of their products when compared to other competing prjects. I rather choose to use something with good support and public image of "beeing awesome".
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