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Great post, Howard.

Regarding Graffiti CMS I noticed that this review was published just a few days ago.

Quick Take Review: Telligent's Graffiti Web Content Management

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/cms-reviews/quick-take-review-telligents-graffiti-web-content-management-004039.php

I wonder if Telligent is the source for the section "What's Coming in Version 2.0"

Superb.

Although you mentioned Umbraco, i could not see it on the "map"

I've been toying with Umbraco a bit and like what I see.

I heard that there are a lot of DotNetNuke'ers out there moving over to Umbraco 4 due to the easier layout/skinning options for web designers.

Sitefinity has a Community edition that is 100% free and usable for commercial web sites.  The community edition displays a "Powered by Sitefinity" logo at the bottom of the page.  In addition, workflow & versioning are disabled.  Otherwise, it is fully featured and powering a lot of web sites.

To speak to your broader point, in the past I've felt the MS community does a poor job of nurturing casual exploration & discovery.  This, I believe, is partially the reason many innovative projects find their roots in other communities (PHP, Python, Ruby).  These communities make it easy to experiment & dabble without committing vast resources upfront (Visual Studio, Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Vista, etc)...

Microsoft's BizSpark is a step in the right direction towards fixing this.  This program makes it easier for start-ups to experiment with MS technology.

At Telerik (and Sitefinity) we've tried to make it easy for anyone to casually "play with" our software.  The downloads section can be accessed for free and the downloads are never time-bombed.  Nor will you need to talk to sales just to get a demo.

Kentico has a free edition which can be used for commercial purposes with no other hidden fees. The free edition displays logo/only a text - "Powered by Kentico" in the footer. The feature comparison table can be found at:

http://www.kentico.com/cms-asp-net-features/Feature-Matrix.aspx

Also Kentico CMS is a Open Source available product, since the full source code can be bought with the license.

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I'm the person that started that "depressing thread" on the Graffiti forum a while back.  I still see zero initiative from Telligent to get things moving with Graffiti... which is such a shame.

Just curious if you've had any changes in thought on any of the blogging platforms since writing this piece?  Have you looked at any other alternatives?

I'm half holding onto hope Graffiti will come out with decent updates, but the other half wants to ditch it and migrate... I'm just sort of lazy right now, so I find myself in a holding pattern.  But given a decent enough platform, I would take the plunge and migrate.

I am curious how DotNetNuke could have been overlooked as an Open Source CMS for ASP.NET? It is licensed under a BSD license and has been available as an open source solution since 2003. With over 6 million downloads to date, it is by far the largest, most active, and most successful open source project native to the Microsoft platform. I also boasts an extremely active developer community, building custom extensions for the platform - with over 2000 add-ons listed on it's official Marketplace ( http://www.snowcovered.com ). Based on user demand, a professionally supported commercial version of the open source product was introduced earlier this year.

DotNetNuke is an open source content management system for ASP.NET. It is a very mature product and has more than 6 million downloads in the past 7 years.

I have used DotNetNuke Professional on a large corporate project and I wouldn't use it again nor would I recommend it. The workflow seemed thrown together and very "last minute", it's peppered with bugs, modules didn't seem to provide the functionality I was expecting (I ended up developing my own) and it’s not as “open source” as I was led to believe. There are a lot of good things I like about DNN but there's a lot more I don't like about it. That's why I now use Umbraco or I'll just write my own CMS in MVC.