Packtpub yesterday announced the final results of the best open source CMS and as expected wordpress, has won this award.
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.
Though the prize money is not important for the wordpress team but the award adds up another testimonial to them and their script. The top top three choices, Elgg and Drupal ended up on the same number of votes. 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.
I would like to congratulate the whole wordpress team for winning this award.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:12 am
I also would like join Amit to congratulate the wordpress team for winning this award.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:37 am
i also congratulate wordpress.. wordpress is now part of our life guys :
October 31st, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Congrats to wordpress !! Don’t you think they deserve the award ??
November 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Obviously they do deserve it because of their million loyal users.
November 11th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Congratulations for WordPress… My favorite script as it is as user friendly as i can make it..
November 11th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Wordpress istoo easy too simple thats hit but bit buggy. Other aspects of CMS like security, bug issues, utility should be considered…deciding the best
congrats wp
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November 11th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
CMS awards is one of the prestigious award for this type of scripts and i think all aspects of the script are taken into consideration and then only WP has been awarded the best as it deserves THE BEST award
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February 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Wordpress deserves the prize without any doubt.
But I for one prefer using WebAPP.
Personally, I’m using WebAPP, a multilingual, open source CMS Perl portal on several websites and it’s great.
It takes 3 minutes to install (including the uploading time!), its safer, faster and has nearly infinite amount of features and resources. An most important its written in REAL Perl (CGI).
You can see it in action here: http://www.web-app.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Josuha