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== Massively Multiuser Weblog Packages ==

There has been some work on comparing the "single user" weblog packages, but nothing really describing the pros and cons of the weblog packages in terms of a large-scale deployment. Things like enterprise-level blogging, or University or Institutional blogging, with hundreds or thousands of users.

There is a highly [http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix detailed overview of about a bajillion CMS packages here.]



Here's a nice table comparing the Known Multiuser Weblog Packages:

{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
|+Multiuser Blog Package Comparison
|-
! Feature !! [http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ MovableType 3] !! [http://mu.wordpress.org WordPress MU] !! [http://b2evolution.net/ b2evolution] !! [http://www.drupal.org Drupal] !! [http://www.bryght.com Bryght] !! [http://wiki.blojsom.com/wiki/display/blojsom/About+blojsom Blosjom] !! [http://www.rollerweblogger.org/ Roller] || [http://www.pmachine.com/expressionengine/ ExpressionEngine] || [http://www.plone.org Plone ] || [http://scoop.kuro5hin.org scoop (Kuro5hin)] || [http://frontier.userland.com/ Manila ] || [http://elgg.net ELGG] || [http://nucleuscms.org Nucleus CMS]
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! cost
| $1200 US || Free || Free || Free || ? || Free || Free || $149US || Free || Free || $499 US/year (academic) || Free || Free
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! Open Source
| No (but source is customizable) || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes  || Yes || Yes || No (but source is available) || Yes || Yes || No || Yes || Yes
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! Support provided
| Corporate + community || Community only || Community only || Community and third party commercial || Corporate + community || Community only || Community only || Corporate + Community || Community only || Community || Corporate + Community || Community only || Community only
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! platform
| perl (php option) || php || php || php || php || java/Tomcat || java/Tomcat || php || python/zope || perl || Win/Mac || php || php
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! databases
| BerkeleyDB
MySQL 
SQL Lite
PostgreSQL
 
|| MySQL || MySQL || MySQL || MySQL || filesystem-based (.txt files) || MySQL || MySQL || MySQL || MySQL || Proprietary - Object based || MySQL? || MySQL
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! Custom "themes"
| per-blog || per-blog || per-blog || per-server, per-user and per-blog || per-server, per-user and per-blog || yes || ?? || per-blog (?) || ?? || ?? || per-blog || per-blog (and user configurable) || per-blog
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! LDAP Authentication
| Maybe (hack) || Maybe (hack) || ?? || yes || yes || yes || ?? || no || Free Add-on || ?? || [http://david.carter-tod.com/frontier/ldapManila.html hack] || yes || [http://forum.nucleuscms.org//viewtopic.php?t=3890 hack + plugin]
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! Largest known deployment
| UThink?
blog.case.edu? 
10000+
|| Blogsome.com (thousands of users) || ?? || mobile phone company in Italy (1000+ users) || UrbanVancouver.com (200+ users) || ?? || Sun Microsystems (1000+ users?) || ?? || ?? || [http://www.kuro5hin.org Kuro5hin] (10000+ users?) || ?? || N/A || [http://forum.nucleuscms.org/viewtopic.php?p=9708#9708 Tipos.com.br (+60 blogs, +500 users)] 
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! Pros
| Nice central admin interface || Highly elegant database-driven design
Free 
|| Fairly easy to understand interface, static pages possible, multiple permissions levels || Extremely flexible, multiple content types
Free 
|| Same as Drupal + support || - || - || - || - || - || - || Free. Very easy to use. Good use of tags and friends (and groups). Customizable themes. || Fast, clean, plugin API
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! Cons
| LDAP support is an unsupported hack
Licensing can be expensive 
|| Table explosion won't scale || Permissions system a little difficult to understand || May appear too complicated to new users. No per-blog customization || Same as Drupal || - || - || - || - || - || - || Beta software. Small user-base. || Smaller community
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