Can WordPress Be Knocked Off It’s Perch?

I’ve been working in IT for longer than I care to remember and I have also developed many websites during the last 10 years in a professional capacity. I started thinking about the EpilogIT blog project that foundered and Wordpress which prospered into todays blog engine of choice for most blog writers.

Now that Wordpress has achieved such world domination will anything be able to displace it? What I mean is will any developer or maybe group of open source developers be able to come up with a software blogging solution that will make bloggers think twice about which blogging platform that they choose. Personally I think Wordpress is certainly here for the long term because it gives Bloggers a solution for virtually every blogging requirement. The old adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix” it almost certainly applies. The plug-ins available seem to cover any requirement.

Maybe I am just an old dinosaur like Charles H. Duell, the commissioner of the U.S. patent office of 1899 who allegedly said “Everything that can be invented has been invented”. I really can’t see any brilliant new breakthrough solutions on the horizon that will allow developers to come up with a revolutionary new blogging solution to seriously rival Wordpress. Time will tell but my guess is that Wordpress is here for my lifetime.