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Technology , Software Tips , Gadgets , Reviews , News Home Drupal wins the 2008 Best PHP Based Open Source CMS PacktPub has begun announcing the winners for the 2008 CMS Awards. The competition has been stiff with names like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress dominating the news. Fortunately, PacktPub offers a category for Other Open Source CMS. The winners of this category, announced today, may surprise some. For the third year in a row, Drupal has been nominated for a Packt Publishing Open Source CMS award. Packt Publishing is announcing winners all week. Today they announced the 2008 best PHP open source CMS. The Award for the best Open Source Content Management System written on a PHP/MySQL platform is today announced as Drupal. Receiving $2,000 as the judges’ and publics favourite, Drupal finishes ahead of Joomla! and CMS Made Simple, who finished on equal points as joint runners up and collect $500 each. Drupal won this award in both the popular vote and the judges selection. The judges cited improvements to installation, updates, breadth of features in modules, and how Drupal handles errors in these processes. Of special note was Drupal's use of social features and how those features integrate with web content management. Of course the final advantage Drupal had was the "large and hugely supportive community". This award belongs to everyone in the Drupal community for helping each other and particularly new users. Last year, Joomla! took out the "Best Open Source PHP CMS". Drupal won the overall award. However, last year Joomla's fabulous 1.5 version was still in beta and not necessarily on the judge's radar. The new framework could very well take J! over the line for 2008. Packt says: "The format for the 2008 Award remains the same, with the addition of a new category, which will replace Open Source Social Networking. This exciting new category is for MVPs at Open Source Content Management Systems. This will recognise the contributions to projects made by individuals that often go unnoticed. For the large majority of Open Source projects, it is the tireless contributions from enthusiastic individuals that enable its growth and adoption and these are the people that Packt feels is necessary to identify. MVPs will be nominated by their projects and will be announced during the final week, with features on the MVPs for the Content Management Systems that won their categories." Here are the finalists. Just drop in a comment and subscribe us Subscribe in a reader Subscribe by email. Enter your email address below:
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