I will share my experience working with both Platforms. TL:DR; Non programmers should use Wordpress When you are working in a small team of developers, and ea

I will share my experience working with both Platforms. TL:DR; Non programmers should use Wordpress When you are working in a small team of developers, and each one can "hack the code" Octopress is a natural environment. You can host it on AWS S3 or Github pages and the setup is simple. But when your marketing fellows start using it, Octopress is usually too complicated for them. Wordpress is more non-programmer friendly. And it has much more plugins and extensions. Too summarize it: IMHO, Wordpress would be a better solution, unless you don't plan to hire marketers.