Yahoo offers Movable Type for business bloggers
This is a great news for the Movable Type community, Six Apart Ltd and Yahoo Inc. will start offering Movable Type for small businesses.
Yahoo will effectively act as the preferred provider of Movable Type for small business users, taking advantage of its scale and efficiency, Anil Dash, vice president of professional products for San Francisco-based Six Apart, said in a phone interview. "This is going to be our recommended (sales) channel for small business," he said.Yahoo provides customers with a unique Web address, blogging tools and business-class e-mail services with spam and virus protections for less than $12 a month.
There is certainly many strategic decisions behind the choice of MT by Yahoo, things that I didn't know for example is that Six Apart counts 100 employees worldwide and it has received nearly $12 million in funding from backers Neoteny Co. Ltd. and August Capital. Also Six Apart's Japanese unit is developing a version of Movable Type to run on Oracle database software, in a bid to encourage wider use of blogs among big businesses. Six Apart was developed to run on open source database software originally.
