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...
- Joomla www.Joomla.org
- Drupal www.Drupal.org
- 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!!!
