Oxite : New Blog Engine from Microsoft

Oxite is a simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and is designed with two main goals:

To provide a sample of ‘core blog functionality’ in a reusable fashion. Blogs are simple and well understood by many developers, but the set of basic functions that a blog needs to implement (trackbacks, rss, comments, etc.) are fairly complex. Hopefully this code helps.
To provide a real-world sample written using ASP.NET MVC.

It is a new open source blog engine and content management system(CMS) from Microsoft that can be used for any thing from hosting a small blog to a corporate web site.

Oxite is highly extensible and standards complaint blog engine with all the features required for powering a blog/CMS – pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated comments, comments moderation, RSS feeds, Web administration panel and XML RPC APIs (required for supporting blogging tools like Windows Live Writer).

Will Oxite Compete With WordPress? No, I don’t think that Oxite will aim to compete with WordPress. WordPress is PHP based software and we can deploy it on cheap Linux & MySQL hosting compared to the expensive Windows hosting required for Oxite. So there is no way that Microsoft Oxite will try to compete with WordPress.

You can download Oxite from Codeplex

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