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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 | News | Open Source
Following a nomination round and eight weeks of voting, Packt are pleased to announce Joomla! as the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award. Joomla! collects a first prize of $5,000 and the title of Packt Open Source CMS Award Winner for 2006.
The final
result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the
Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com
saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a
fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a
member of CM Pros and runs his own blog [http://apoorv.info/] on portals and
content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over
Drupal by one point. The final
result was as follows:1. Joomla!-
$5,000
2. Drupal -
$3,000
3. Plone -
$2,000 Please note
that in deciding the final positions judges were asked to give their top three,
with their first choice receiving 3 points, second receiving two points and
third place one point. Choosing
the top three proved to be a difficult experience for the judges, due to the
quality of the finalists and their ability to suit different tasks depending on
the objective of the user. "All the CMS’s that made the top 5 are very good"
declared Scott Goodwin, representing The Open Source Collective, "and I
wouldn't hesitate to use any of them depending on what I'm trying to accomplish." The judges
had strong compliments for all five finalists, with some of the highlights
listed below:
Drupal
- Has been
around for quite some time and is stable and actively developed
- Well
coded and has an available granular permissions system and a strong eye for
security
- Configuration was a breeze
- Lightweight installation
- Plethora
of modules and themes
- Exceptional documentation and has an active and friendly community
- The node
concept is very good
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- Easy to
setup and install
- Wide
selection of themes and modules
- Provides
lots of flexibility
- Backend
seems well put together
- Drop down menu is a nice touch and
is organized well
Joomla!
- Very easy to
install and use with lots of extensions and modules
- The
documentation is exhaustive and concise
- Admin
user interface is intuitive and powerful
- The
backend of Joomla! is very usable and the WYSIWYG editor the content was nice
- Seems
like it would scale well and provides a lot of customization options
- Large and
active community
Plone
- Very
flexible and powerful
- Great
user interface
- Very
clean default installation
- Lots of
addon modules
- Worth
taking the steep learning curve
- Impressed
with the customization it offers
- Integration with LDAP or other login systems is a plus
XOOPS
- Minimalist initial install
- Great
community support
- Provides
lots of addon modules and themes
- Lots of
functionality
- Mature
and has a very good permissions system
Competition Winner
The lucky winner of the iPod Nano was Doug Tyree, from Sydney Australia. All visits to the site who voted for a CMS and completed the short survey were entered into a draw to win the iPod. Doug's name was selected at random from the list of entries.
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