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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: mmj141[/u][p]My orientation for GL is more than blogs. GL offers blog functionality and CMS+ functions. GL is the superior CRM app and perfect for special interest sites like groklaw.net. GL gives the SOHO a competitive edge with their customers.

Recreational blogging has peaked, the trend is to recreational "social networking" now. "Most people" who start a recreational blog (the vast majority) drop the activity after 2 to 3 months. No appreciable return on time and resource investment for this as a hobby.

In the interest of fairness I decided to increase my due diligence investigation of MT. If you read many WP forums there is great animosity toward MT. I wondered what could cause this. A further review of MT history revealed events that caused this and began the decline of MT. Poor management decisions are responsible for the decline of many companies when they enter a new product space. The results of two MT management decisions are a textbook example of this phenomenon.

A hideous MT management decision in 2004 to begin a paid version of MT caused the majority of the MT user base to flock to WP. In addition, this year, MT management broke a cardinal rule of the open source space. When a crucial WP update was to be issued MT management posted a request that asked WP users to move to MT rather than do the WP upgrade.

In the OS space, product teams do not interfere in that manner with another product. The result was further energy infused into the WP team by this behavior. Now MU and Buddypress seem poised to propel WP to the top of the recreational "social networking" arena.

The evidence on Google Trends is incontrovertible. The MT decline is stark when Google Trends is used to reveal the precipitous drop in the charts for MT. GL remains at a steady straight line with its loyal user base. The downward trend of the MT line is a shock. While at the same time the WP line soars upward. All this is available for review.

The reason MT was placed in open source is self-evident. The original paid license scheme in 2004 failed. Now, MT management wants to drive MT OS users to MT Pro and a costly license scheme so the users would pay to get recreational "social networking". It backfired. The move only spurred the WP team and others to increase the functionality of WP with MT Pro features. This reality should lead MT management to revise their product business plan since WP is in the ascendancy.

Given the above facts, way too much bandwidth on this GL forum has been wasted on MT. Users beginning a blog should use GL. If they are drawn to WP or MT they must know that MT OS is a front for a commercial company with a suspect history. Those who want quality "social networking" features will find them on the WP MU/Buddypress OS platform at the end of 2008.

Will post this information on other forums so consumers are aware of MT's pernicious history.

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