Movable Type 4 in Beta – MT Open Source On The Cards

When I first started blogging my poison of choice was Movable Type (I still use it on some of my blogs). For a number of reasons I moved over to WP, but I’ve always kept an eye on the Movable Type community.
SixApart have been very busy over the last year, with upgrades to their various products and services and the release of Vox.
They’ve just made two very interesting announcements.
First off Movable Type 4 is in beta and promises a lot of new features including support for OpenID, standalone pages, aggregation and an improved editor. Full details of the new features can be found on their site.
I hope to get a chance to play with it later this week after which I’ll be able to provide a more comprehensive review.
The other announcement is that they’ve launched an Open Source project. From what I can see they’ve taken a leaf out of RedHat’s book and intend to use the Open Source project to drive their licensed version, much akin to the relationship between Fedora and RHE.