Blogging Roller

To keep up with what's being said about Roller, I'm subscribed to search newsfeeds from Technorati, PubSub, and Feedster. My search expression looks something like this:

   roller AND ("blog server" OR "blog software")

I'm trying to compare the quality of results from the three services, but so far I can't see too much difference. Ok, on to the topic of the post.

Yesterday, PubSub scooped both Technorati and Feedster with a couple of mentions of Roller. First, in a post from D'Arcy Norman about "Massively Multi User Weblogging." Then in a follow up from James Farmer, who gives his point-of-view on each of the options. Farmer's follow-up is filled with lots of good info, until he gets to Roller where he says:

It looks to me like Roller is going to become part of Sun’s enterprise software offerings (here and here) so there’s not a heap of point following that up at the moment

Whatever do you mean by "It looks to me like Roller is going to become part of Sun’s enterprise software offerings (here and here) so there’s not a heap of point following that up at the moment"? If anything, that is a reason to follow up, not a reason against. Anyhow…

Roller is a great choice, Sun has over a thousand blogs running on it. JRoller.com has > 7000. There are numerous other large scale sites. Roller is open source software licensed under and Apache license and that ain’t gonna change.

Plus, Roller is Java/J2EE -- so it will run anywhere from standalone to Apache/Tomcat to big honkin' app servers like Weblogic, Websphere, and the Sun Java App Server (minor tweaks necessary for some of those app severs, but it will run).

If you're considering setting up a site for hundreds or thousands of blogs, make sure Roller is on the evaluation list.