I always wonder, in cases like this, about the role that the underlying technology plays. Wordpress's choice of PHP meant that installation was easy, theming/modification was easy, and it would work on your crappy shared host with FTP access. In fact, that's why I used Wordpress, back in '04 or '05. Because I couldn't get MT working properly on Powweb. For a platform that needs to be ubiquitous to succeed, I guess you really need a ubiquitous programming language.
I can't even guess how many tools I never investigated because they required language or library support that I didn't have installed. One failed "port install" in the whole dependency and I will probably have to give up.
Maybe MT's failure to catch on had nothing to do with Six Apart's failure to catch on. Still fun to think about.
I can't even guess how many tools I never investigated because they required language or library support that I didn't have installed. One failed "port install" in the whole dependency and I will probably have to give up.
Maybe MT's failure to catch on had nothing to do with Six Apart's failure to catch on. Still fun to think about.