Converting Business Catalyst Site to Either a php include site, or wordpress cms

I have a relatively simple for a client that was developed using business catalyst. I orginally was hoping to move the site to our sever, but have since found out that you must use adobe to host your site when using muse as a development enviornment. I would like to host this site on my server and the most viable option I can see would be to convert the site to either wordpress or a php include site.
Can anyone help me with converting this site are there any tutorials or resouces that focus on migrating your catalyst site to another cms or server? Any help is appreciated, thanks.

If it was built in muse it must be a simple enough site that you can just rebuild it in not much time.
If you're doing it in php i suggest using Twig for templating.

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These might be helpful for you
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/businesscatalyst/articles/build_first_bc_w ebsite.html
http://www.businesscatalyst.com/support/customers.html
I'm moving this thread to our Business Catalyst forum.
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