Drupal won both the Best PHP Open Source CMS category and the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award from the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award!

Check the news here : www.packtpub.com/award

This is great news because my blog and lots of my websites are made with Drupal and I'm everyday happier not to have chosen Joomla when I was still evaluating both and hesitating.

I'm only interested in the Best Project category of the SourceForge 2008 Community Choice Awards, as you can see we can find again my beloved Drupal in this list, that's good, so I voted for Drupal in several categories. You can do so too at https://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-vote

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award 2007 is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to the Packt website which has been promoted by the different open source projects communities. This category of Best PHP Open Source CMS was clearly my favorite because it is where we could have a clear competition between Joomla and Drupal, obvious category leaders in my opinion. In 2006, the award had been won by Joomla, what about 2007?

The total prize fund is $20 000 but for this category of BEST PHP OPEN SOURCE CMS only the winner of the five finalists gets $2000 and the other projects get nothing. Here are the results...

1. Joomla www.Joomla.org
2. Drupal www.Drupal.org
3. e107 www.e107.org

CMS Made Simple www.cmsMadeSimple.org and PHP-Fusion www.PHP-Fusion.co.uk are also worth checking out since they were finalist projects in this category.

Joomla! is today revealed as the Award's third category winner, claiming Best Open Source PHP Content Management System. Last year's overall winner came out on top ahead of Drupal in second and e107 in third place and receives $2,000.

Joomla! is possibly one of the biggest success stories in open source of late. Its first release came in only September 2005 and since then has grown to be one of the most downloaded Content Management Systems on the web.

The judges noted a number of factors that helped Joomla! secure the Award. Most notably its good front-end for administrators and end-users, which gives users a simple and traditional company website straight out of the box. Once again, judges commented on the size and responsiveness of the community, which translates to potential problems being dealt with quickly.

Let me tell you that I disagree strongly with the judges, Drupal is clearly better than Joomla but once again like last year they gave the award to Joomla, this is so unfair! And let me tell you something, this whole award is total shit, why? Because of a rule they have setup and written very small which says that one CMS cannot win several categories, do you understand? Because Drupal won the overall best cms, it cannot win best php cms and best social networking cms, and that's the only reason why joomla and wordpress won those categories in front of Drupal... Now find another rule more stupid than this one? It makes people believe that joomla or wordpress are superior to Drupal when they're not!

But... congratulations to Joomla, the winning project of BEST PHP OPEN SOURCE CMS 2007!!!

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award 2007 is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to the Packt website which has been promoted by the different open source projects communities. This category of Best Other Open Source CMS means "other than PHP" so this year's finalist projects have been developed in C#, JAVA, PYTHON programming languages.

The total prize fund is $20 000 but for this category of BEST OTHER OPEN SOURCE CMS only the winner of the five finalists gets $2000 and the other projects get nothing. Here are the results...

1. mojoPortal www.mojoPortal.com
2. Plone www.Plone.org
3. Silva www.infrae.com/products/silva

OpenEdit www.OpenEdit.org and OpenCms www.OpenCms.org are also worth checking out since they were finalist projects in this category.

Packt can exclusively reveal the second category winner of the Open Source Content Management System Award as mojoPortal, winning Best Other Open Source CMS. In another tight category, mojoPortal came out ahead of Plone and Silva who came second and third respectively.

With PHP/MySQL Content Management Systems dominating the 2006 Awards, it was decided that setting up a category for CMS's written in other languages would be an important addition for 2007. This has enabled us to present and give extra recognition to the plethora of non PHP/MySQL CMS's that are available. This was backed up by the judges who noted the quality of all five finalists and how difficult the job of selecting a top three was.

The judges agreed that mojoPortal's ease of use, set of relevant tools and plugins and also the fact that it is cross platform, made it stand out above the rest. On hearing the news, Joe Audette, the founder, leader and primary developer of mojoPortal was predictably pleased. "The mojoPortal team is very happy to be honored with this award. We are working very hard to continuously improve mojoPortal and will use the award money to fund the completion of our e-commerce feature" he explained. "We'd like to thank our community members and the judges for helping us achieve this recognition and we'd like to thank Packt Publishing for the additional attention to our project which has resulted from this contest and award" Audette concludes.

Congratulations to mojoPortal, the winning project of BEST OTHER OPEN SOURCE CMS 2007!!!

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award 2007 is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to the Packt website which has been promoted by the different open source projects communities. This is very nice of Packt to reward open source projects and in my opinion Drupal is the best of all, it has been the most useful piece of software for me so far in my money making journey on the web, soif it depended only on me it should be the overall winner of this friendly competition as well as the winner in the two categories in which it is a finalist.

Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.

In what is one of the new categories for 2007, the Open Source Social Networking CMS Award was designed to recognise Content Management Systems that promoted the collaboration and distribution of information and development of communities. The Judges commented on WordPress's ease of configuration, professional approach, usability and enthusiastic community. Along with the title, WordPress will receive $2,000 in prize money from Packt.

With the judges choosing and internauts contributing their top three choices, Elgg and Drupal ended up on the same number of votes in joint second. Judges praised Elgg as a true Open Source Social Networking CMS, its variety of themes and overall user experience. Drupal had a long list of positive comments from the judges and was praised as a good overall package.

The total prize fund is $20 000 but for this category of BEST SOCIAL NETWORKING OPEN SOURCE CMS only the winner of the five finalists gets $2000 and the other projects get nothing. Here are the results...

1. WordPress www.WordPress.org
2. Drupal www.Drupal.org, Elgg www.Elgg.org

LifeType www.LifeType.net and Moodle www.Moodle.org didn't make it to the top 3 but are worth checking out too since they were finalist projects...

Congratulations to WordPress, the winning project of BEST SOCIAL NETWORKING CMS 2007!!!