Here is a word for you: Oxite
This is Microsoft’s “open source” blogging platform, supposedly aimed at developer – NOT aimed at other blogging platforms such as Wordpress or MovableType. Not sure I believe that claim, but hey…
According to Microsoft, Oxite is a:
standards-compliant, extensible content-management system designed to support either blogs or larger Web sites, Microsoft said. The platform includes support for features such as pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting, gravatars (globally recognized avatars), and RSS feeds at any page level
Why would Microsoft attempt to get into the blogging platform space at this point? While I know nothing, to me this would be an easy way of introducing Sharepoint to a whole new world of developers.
It turns out that Oxite was written in ASP.NET, much like Microsoft’s other “portal and blogging” offering – Sharepoint. What better way of creating a demand than giving users a “teaser” product then saying “oh, you want to implement this on a large scale… it’s funny because we have this other product that will meet your needs”.
While executive management will not be aware of the both products, necessarily, the hardcore developer of an organization will. This will have the ability to create a “demand” from within.
Smart move by Microsoft if that is their intent…
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