  Several non-cuprates layered transition-metal oxides exhibit clear evidence
for stripe ordering of charges and magnetic moments. Therefore, stripe order
should be considered as the typical consequence of doping a Mott insulator, but
only in cuprates stripe order or fluctuating stripes coexist with metallic
properties. A linear relationship between the charge concentration and the
incommensurate structural and magnetic modulations can be considered as the
finger print of stripe ordering with localized degrees of freedom. In
nickelates and in cobaltates with K2NiF4 structure, doping suppresses the
nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetism and induces stripe order. The higher amount
of doping needed to induce stripe phases in these non-cuprates series can be
attributed to reduced charge mobility. Also manganites exhibit clear evidence
for stripe phases with further enhanced complexity, because orbital degrees of
freedom are involved. Orbital ordering is the key element of stripe order in
manganites since it is associated with the strongest structural distortion and
with the perfectly fulfilled relation between doping and incommensurability.
Magnetic excitations in insulating stripe phases exhibit strong similarity with
those in the cuprates, but only for sufficiently short magnetic correlation
lengths reflecting well-defined magnetic stripes that are only loosely coupled.
