Owen at Asymptomatic has caused a stir over at Slashdot with the posting of his Blog Software Breakdown chart. The chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog software packages side-by-side for comparison. Only server-installed scripts were included in this list. (No Radio, Blogger, etc.) The chart was created by Owen to help figure out what blog tool best suited his needs. Hopefully, says Owen, it will be useful to the self-hosted blogging community as well.
"Even before the whole Movable Type fallout, I had been trying to decide which of the many weblog CMS packages would be best for my needs. I got tired of flipping back and forth between each of the sites, especially when not all of the answers to my questions were apparent from simply reading the main web page."
See the Blog Software Breakdown at Asymptomatic, which covers Movable Type, pMachine Pro, WordPress, b2evolution, TextPattern, Pivot and more. It is one fine piece of work in my opinion and undoubtedly will prove to be invaluable for anyone looking into setting up their own server-installed blogging scripts.
An Excel spreadsheet containing all the data is also freely available for download.
The Slashdot post points out "Here's a rather detailed breakdown of currently popular blogging and content management systems. Out of 11 software packages, 10 run on any server with variations of Perl/PHP and MySQL/PostgresSQL, and one requires Windows and .NET Framework. 4 are licensed under GPL, 3 are under BSD."
Of the PHP/MySQL entries in the chart, such as WordPress, they can all be test driven at OpenSourceCMS. The site features over 60+ Open Source CMS software installed onsite with access to the adminstrative panels. Each CMS is reloaded every 2 to 3 hours, so don't worry about screwing anything up.
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