I've reached a point were I no longer will tolerate complicated and/or tedious software installs (well at least when I'm not getting paid to do them.) If I can't have it up and running in 2 or maybe 3 minutes, I really start to question my need for the software. What brought this up, was investigating blogging/wiki/bliki software. I'm largely sick of Moveable Type. Sure the license change was a pain, but in general it's too fiddly for what it does... which for me isn't much. Ideally, I'd switch to a bliki (weblog + wiki) and be able to import my old stuff, and be off and running. That is still not to be. The leading contender Snipsnap is nearly excellent, but the speed of its development seems glacial, and the documentation is craptacular, and not even all in one place. A well documented, easy interface for creating new topics would be great... it would make importing data from my legacy systems a snap. It is however the model for easy to install. Even if you don't use the webstart installer, you can download it and be up and running in maybe 60 seconds. No messing about with databases, installing a dozen different libraries, or fooling with Apache. They do this by including a lightweight database and webserver as part of the package. If you want to tap into a heavier weight database, you can, but to test drive the software you don't have to bother with that hurdle. (Jira from Atlassian is similar in this respect.) All the other packages I tried (I'm too lazy to linkify them) Drupal, TikiWiki, and even the claimed super easy to install Wordpress, I gave up on. If your setup relies on me having Mysql setup/installed/ and vigilantly administered, it is not a super easy install. I honestly don't want to learn how to administer yet another database... It's not even learning, the fundementals are all the same, I just would have to fill my head with it's pointlessly different way of doing things... likely at the expense of my knowledge of other databases. That's not to say I'd never use anything that relies on Mysql, or some other software I have yet used. I just need a compelling reason to do so. So make the initial install super quick and easy (like Snipsnap and Jira) and when I realize how cool they are, I'll suck it up an install a database for performance/security reasons.