Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:38pm
The Ostatic blog is really just a wrapper for additional services. The site will also have a directory with key information on each project, including alternatives and links to documentation, forums, mailings lists and the source code itself. Initial data in the director has been added from outsourced writers in India. Going forward, projects can send updates and new content to the site, or add it themselves.
The directory portion of Ostatic is competitive with a number of existing services, including SourceForge, which tracks 170,000 or so projects.
Ostatic also has a "questions and answers" area, similar to Yahoo Answers, where readers can ask questions and get responses from experts.
So is Ostatic built on open source? Yes, say Malik. The platform is built on open source Drupal, and licensed from Vox Holdings.
I think this a case of using the better tool for the job. If you just need to blog and throw on a feature or two, as an afterthought, WordPress is right for you. If you do more advanced things than blog, using Drupal as a CMF is the way to go.