Movable Type 4
Movable Type is Six Apart’s flagship blog software product, launched in 2001. Today, this robust social publishing platform powers some of the websites and blogs of the world’s largest media companies and Fortune 100 businesses, small and medium sized businesses, and power bloggers. Movable Type excels as a fully integrated, scalable, proven social publishing platform upon which to build highly interactive websites, blogs and social networks.
Prior to 2005, Movable Type was the most popular blog system. But Six Apart (the company behind Movable Type) was a for-profit company. And though Six Apart eventually established Movable Type as a true open source project, the vast majority of bloggers and open source blog developers migrated to WordPress around 2005, because Six Apart momentarily wavered in its desire to support the “free” nature of Movable Type. With the release of version 3.0, Six Apart changed its licensing, placing greater restrictions on its use without paying a licensing fee.
In spite of losing its status as the primary open source blogging software, Movable Type remains relevant as both a legacy system and as an alternative to WordPress in the critical often critical area of scalability. While the vast majority of bloggers will have scalability issues, MT’s architecture provides for greater and more efficient scaling.
February 26, 2009