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Movable Type 4.0 vs. Expression Engine 1.6
Travis F. Smith, CMSWire.com, Aug 31. 2007

“Throughout the article, “MT” refers to Six Apart’s's first non-beta release of MT 4.0, not the 4.01 still in beta. “EE” refers to the software called Expression Engine 1.6.0 build 20070815 by Ellis Labs.”

About the Author:

Travis F. Smith is the owner of Hop Studios, a Web design and development company that specializes in blog development and journalism. He has been building content-rich, elegant Web sites since 1994, when he was deputy editorial director and one of the creators of the Los Angeles Times Web site. He’s also a professional speaker on such topics as blogging, subscription-based revenue models and online journalism. He has been the editor of Variety.com, and a lecturer at the University of Southern California. His own site runs on an unholy mixture of EE and MT.

Looks like a thumbs up, and deservedly so!

Very well done. Balanced and fair from someone who obviously has more than a toe in both EE and MT. I love his commentary on EE support, and wholeheartedly agree. The most glaring comparative weakness for EE vs MT would be Templates.

Blogging tools are full-fledged content management systems these days.

Kudos EE folks.

A client sent me this link this morning.

Movable Type 4 vs. EE 1.6

One of the better balanced comparisons I’ve read to date.  Don’t remember seeing it mentioned on here so I thought I’d point it out.

Jamie

[Moderator Edit: Merged :-D]

AH Bad me.  😊  Should have searched better.

Jamie (Hides in his hole…)

There’s a rivalry?  I think any kind of rivalry died when SixApart when amazingly corporate and started neglecting MT development for its hosted services.  Their news started being practically all marketing speak and they totally went towards the corporate, high-spending crowd.  Why would we want to be rivals to that?

A nice review though.  Good job, Travis.

I have been using MT since v1.5 - fairly early and there was a great community spirit at the time. As Paul eluded that all went down the pan when they went commercial - but give the Trott’s their due they had spent a great deal of their time and effort without reward in the beginning without expecting the whole thing to expand in the way it has.

For me EE is much more customisable but that comes at a learning curve cost. Horses for courses as they say. However I can’t see me building any new sites in MT4 now.