Anil Dash has posted that as of today Movable Type is now open source. As most other bloggers I have chosen Wordpress for my platform since it is easily customizable and has excellent documentation. Also, creating plugin-ins in PHP is a snap with Wordpress. I have yet to thoroughly analyze Movable Type though and may consider making the move if there is a big upside to switching platforms.
There are already a number of large sites that are leveraging the Movable Type platform including the soon to go public, Huffington Post. I have done installations of both Wordpress and Movable Type for clients and I have to say that Movable Type was always the easier install. Prior to caching plugins provided by Wordpress, I would have recommended Movable Type as a platform for high traffic sites. That’s no longer the case and I always default to Wordpress.
Can you think of any reason to switch to Movable Type aside from their willingness to embrace open standards?
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I think it is great to see Matt pushing Wordpress, even with Google owning Blogger. Shows that he is pushing the best without bias towards a Google product.
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