So this CEO walks into an engineering department and asks about setting up the news section of the company’s website to use a blogging system instead of updating it by hand.  Great idea.  Now given that the company’s website is hosted on an IIS server with MS SQL 7, ASP, ASP.Net and PHP available – what software does the intelligent engineer recommend?

If there was a very significant benefit, a subdomain could be used for news and pointed to a Linux server with MySQL, Apache and PHP (and for which root access is available) but that’s a lousy option due to the extra overhead of having to maintain that server entirely ourselves and the difficulty caused by splitting our website over multiple servers etc.  It would have to be one heck of a big advantage to make it worth the trouble.

While the people updating the news section will be fairly technical it needs to be easy to use and I’d be keen to integrate EditLive! for Java into it as the HTML editor if possible.  EditLive! for Java can be easily integrated into pretty much anything web-based or Java-based (and I could use EditLive! for Windows as a DLL to integrate into Win32 apps too but that would require me learning stuff or handing the project off to our VB monkey).