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Cutenews is a blog publishing system written by Georgi Avramov and available free of charge (although a subscription fee is required to remove the Powered by CuteNews line).

CuteNews is written in PHP and all content is stored in flat text files, so database software is not required.

dBlog was born in 2003, written by Daniele (marlenek) for his personal blog, and later released to the public under the GNU GPL (General Public License) with the additional requirement to keep a link back to the dBlog website.

Out of the box dBlog is a weblog and a photoblog. Its features include RSS and Atom feeds, moderated user comments, calendar, site search, statistics, templating, and many more, like other blog and content management platforms.

Somewhat less usual are the system requirements for this platform. dBlog is not a PHP – MySQL application, but is based on ASP and the MS Access database, and requires a Windows server with IIS.

So it could be the right choice for those who prefer or need to be based on a Microsoft environment. The latest available version is dBlog 2.0, released on November 26, 2005.

DotClear is a blog package distributed as free software under the GNU GPL (General Public License). It’s not very well known outside the French speaking world, probably because only basic documentation is available in English.

DotClear is a PHP and MySQL application, and its features include:

* use of the W3C standards, including XHTML 1.0 Strict;
* friendly URLs;
* RSS and Atom feeds;
* full Unicode support;
* multiple user levels;
* support of XML/RPC clients, to edit the weblog from third party applications.

DotClear was started in 2002 by Olivier Meunier, and its first version was released in August 2003. DotClear 2.0+ requires PHP 5 and supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

DotNetNuke was born on December 24, 2002, when Shaun Walker released a modified version of the Microsoft IBuySpy Portal Solution (IBS) Starter Kit.

The original IBS Starter Kit’s goal was to demonstrate how ASP.NET and the .NET framework could be used to construct dynamic and data-driven portal applications.

The modified version, named IBuySpy Workshop, included a variety of enhancements over the original IBS code, including the ability to support multiple portals from a single database/codebase.

A few months later the application was renamed DotNetNuke. The name was chosen to recall the .NET framework, coupled with the term Nuke made popular by existing frameworks such as PHP-Nuke and PostNuke.

A full account of DotNetNuke’s formation and background – written by Shaun Walker – is the focus of Chapter 1 in the book “DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals” available through Amazon.com.

DotNetNuke is released under a BSD license.

In 2000, University of Antwerp student Dries Buytaert started to write a software application for his campus website, allowing his group of friends to discuss and share news and notes.

When Dries moved out after graduation, the group decided to put the internal website online, with the name drop.org, so that they could stay in touch. Only later, in January 2001, Dries decided to release the software behind drop.org, naming it Drupal.

Since these early steps, described in About Drupal – History, Drupal has evolved into an open-source platform and content management system supporting a diverse range of web projects, from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites.

Drupal is written in PHP and requires a MySQL (or PostgreSQL) database. The templating systems are XTemplate (the default theme engine for Drupal 4.6.x and previous) and the new PHPTemplate engine (default in 4.7.x).

Drupal is released under the GNU GPL (General Public License).