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...
- mojoPortal www.mojoPortal.com
- Plone www.Plone.org
- 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!!!
