Microsoft , at its CodePlex site under the code name Oxit Alpha version of an open source content management system provided to download the. Oxit is available under the Microsoft Public License , one of two from the Open Source Initiative approved open licenses of the software giant.

According to Microsoft to Oxit "form a sound basis, the user can build on." Oxit allows, Pingback , Trackback , anonymous comments or only those of registered users (with optional moderation), supports Gravatars , RSS feeds and the API MetaWeblog , and includes an administration tool and a site search function. A typical system blogging!

But Microsoft claims to Oxit lend itself but also to build really large sites. That would be Oxit adjust accordingly.

With SharePoint, the Redmond giant, but on a true content management in the offer, but there are many alternatives that are open more and more successful, the group seems to see the need for a separate open alternative to offer. Apparently, the pressure of Alfresco and Co. really penetrated up to redmond.

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Posted on 9 December 2008
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