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DotNetNuke, Joomla, Kentico and WordPress are the most popular Content Management Systems or CMS Applications used all over the world to power websites. However, even though each CMS has its advantages and shortcomings, you can build your own website of any kind. Let us now compare the features and other information about all the four Content Management Systems.

	DotNetNuke	Joomla	Kentico	WordPress
CMS Release Date	February 2009	August 2005	September 2004	May 2003
Started by	Walker's company	Forked  from Mambo	Petr Palas	Matt Mullenwegg and Mike Little
Company	DotNetNuke Corp.	The Joomla Project	Kentico Software	WordPress
Framework	.NET	PHP	.NET	PHP
Application Server	Windows	Windows, Linux	Windows	Windows, Linux
Licensing Model	Open Source	Open Source	Pay Per Domain	Open Source
Base Cost	N/A	Free	Affordable Cost	Free
Implementation Cost	N/A	Costly	Free	Costly
Usability	Less	Comparatively Less	High	High
No. of websites powered	>7,50,000	>500,000,000	>10 million	>10 million
Downloads	>8 million	>30 million	>1 million	>140 million
Top sites using the platform	EricksonTribune, Magenic, SkyeTek	Harvard University, The Hill	BendixKing, RAC, Brantano	Forbes, CNN, Sony
Free Themes	1,315+	900+	1000+	2000+
Free Plug-ins	12,780+	7000+	10000+	27000+
Best used for	Commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications	e-commerce, social networking sites	e-commerce, intranet, social networking, online marketing	Blogs, corporate websites, small-medium sized websites