| General Features | b2evolution  | Battle Blog | Blogger | blogSpirit | Cakewalk Blogs | dasBlog | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | FlatPress | Forest Blog | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | SamePage | Serendipity | Tabulas.com | typo | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
 Version |
2.4 |
1.0d |
does not apply | 5.0 |
does not apply | 2.0 (2.0.7226.0) |
2.1.3 |
1.6 |
0.703 |
1.2.2 |
1.5.1 |
1.0.2 |
1.2.6 |
0.6 |
4.21 |
3.24 |
1.40.6 |
1.12.0 |
3.3 |
1.1 |
does not apply | 4.1.1 |
1.1 |
1.5.4 |
2.0.7 |
| Release Date |
02-dec-2006 |
11/08/2006 |
does not apply | 2007 |
does not apply | 14 August 2007 |
2008-11-20 |
2004-04-23 |
June 27, 2007 |
13/02/2007 |
22 Sep 2008 |
2007-01-09 |
Feb-2008 |
2006-12-09 |
2008-08-21 |
Nov 11, 2006 |
July 14, 2008 |
August 23rd, 2006 |
3.3 |
2006-12-28 |
does not apply | 08 May 2007 |
6/30/06 |
Oct 24 2007 |
2007-01-15 |
| Author |
Francois Planque / evoTeam |
David Pinero |
Google Inc. |
blogSpirit |
Kirk Carter, Service First Webmasters, Inc. |
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team |
Olivier Meunier |
EllisLab, Inc. |
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team |
Patrick Robin |
Geeklog Team |
Jeena Paradies / team |
The LifeType Project |
Gerrit van Aaken |
Six Apart |
Wouter Demuynck and others |
Pivot Team |
The PSG Team |
eTouch Systems |
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al |
Roy Kim |
|
Wheat, Josh, Pete |
Josh Schmidt |
WordPress Development Team |
| URL |
b2evolution.net |
www.battleblog.com |
www.blogger.com |
www.blogspirit.com |
www.CakewalkBlogs.com |
dasblog.info |
dotclear.org |
expressionengine.com |
www.flatpress.org |
www.hostforest.co.uk |
www.geeklog.net |
jeenaparadies.net |
lifetype.net |
loudblog.de |
www.movabletype.org |
nucleuscms.org |
www.pivotlog.net |
www.projectsteveguttenberg.org |
www.etouch.net |
www.s9y.org |
www.tabulas.com |
typosphere.org |
wheatblog.sourceforge.net |
www.wikyblog.com |
wordpress.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
does not apply | From $0 to Enterprise |
does not apply | BSD License |
GPL v2 |
Proprietary |
GPLv2 |
|
GNU version 2 |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
Commercial |
BSD |
does not apply | MIT |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free |
|
0 |
From $0 to Enterprise |
Free |
Free |
0 |
From 0$ - 249.95$ |
Free |
|
none |
|
0 |
0 |
$0 |
free |
Free |
Free |
Pls check www.etouch.net |
0 |
Free |
0 |
$0.00 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
Beta |
Mature |
Mature |
| Interface Languages |
en,fr,de,da,id,fi,it,ja,nl,sv |
English |
9 |
6 |
English |
Over a dozen languages |
6 |
over 15 |
English, Italian, (Old : Deutsch), (older, can yoi help? French, Hungarian) |
English |
 31 |
German, English, Italian |
English, Spanish, Catalan, German, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Dutch, Italian, French |
about 10 |
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch |
English and others |
English, Dutch, 30+ others (downloadable) |
English, German, Danish, Spanish, French, Norwegian |
English |
English, German, Danish, French and many more |
English |
en, fr, de, ro |
XHTML, CSS |
Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Turkish |
46 |
| Multi-User Support |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
No |
 Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes |
|
No |
Yes |
|
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Hosting Features | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | blogSpirit | Cakewalk Blogs | dasBlog | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | FlatPress | Forest Blog | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | SamePage | Serendipity | Tabulas.com | typo | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | None |
does not apply |
none |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
does not apply | NA |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | None |
does not apply |
none |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
does not apply | NA |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply | None |
does not apply |
none |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
does not apply | NA |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
No |
No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | Optional |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography |
does not apply |
No spam, porn or hate speech |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No pornography |
does not apply | None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | blogSpirit | Cakewalk Blogs | dasBlog | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | FlatPress | Forest Blog | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | SamePage | Serendipity | Tabulas.com | typo | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
Classic ASP |
does not apply | PHP |
does not apply | asp.net 2.0 |
PHP 5 |
PHP |
PHP4, compatible with 5 |
ASP 3.0 |
php |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl 5 |
PHP |
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended |
PHP |
Java |
PHP |
does not apply | Ruby on Rails |
PHP, SQL |
PHP |
PHP |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other |
Windows |
does not apply | Linux |
does not apply | Any Windows IIS platform |
Unix/Linux, Windows |
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris |
Platform Independent |
Windows |
any |
|
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X |
all |
Platform Independant |
Linux, Windows, UNIX |
Any |
Any |
Windows/Linux/Solaris |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
does not apply | All |
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other |
IIS 4.0+ |
does not apply | Apache |
does not apply | IIS 4.0+ |
Apache, Lighthttpd |
IIS, Apache |
Apache, seems to be working on IIS |
IIS 5+ |
any |
|
Apache, IIS |
Apache, IIS |
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver |
Apache with PHP |
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended |
Any |
Bundled with Tomcat. Can be proxied via webserver of choice |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS) |
does not apply | Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ... |
Apache |
|
Wikis
Forums
Podcatchers
Weblogs
