WordPress goes enterprise with KnowNow

Automattic, the company behind open source blogging platform WordPress and free blog service WordPress.com, has struck a deal with enterprise RSS company KnowNow, who will begin selling KnowNow Wordpress Enterprise Edition (KWEE), a special version of WordPress MU (i.e. Multi-User, the same multi-blog software WordPress.com is built on) that will include special enterprise features like LDAP authentication and analytics.

WordPress CEO Toni Schneider has a post on his blog that describes the deal in greater detail. According to Read/WriteWeb, KWEE will be available both as a KnowNow-hosted package or as a distribution enterprise companies can install on their own servers.

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