Oxite

Microsoft has just released Oxite which is their open-source blogging platform targeted for developers and designers. The following features are included:

1. Standards-compliant

2. Extensible content-management system that supports either blogs or larger Web sites

3. Support for pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting, gravatars (globally recognized avatars), and RSS feeds at any page level.

4. Create and edit a set of pages on a site

5. Ability to add customized HTML into pages

6. Support multiple blogs on a single site.

7. Integration with Microsoft ASP.Net MVC, Visual Studio Team Suite, and Background Services Architecture.

I believe that downplaying its role to “developer use” and not as a competition to Wordpress and Moveable Type lessen the expectations from the product, and creates a positive adoption among Microsoft developers, improve upon it and hopefully make it a full pledged blogging platform for large scale usage. But then again, there is SharePoint blogs and DotNetBlogEngine.net which could compete with Oxite on Microsoft market share.

I think it would be tempting to try this out; but I don’t see myself taking this seriously. I would rather spend time on DotNetBlogEngine and SharePoint blogs than learning another architecture base.

Anyways, you can download the source code from CodePlex here.

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