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And the winner of the PacktPub 2008 Open Source CMS Award goes to... Today is the day, PacktPub.com has announced the winner of the Overall Open Source CMS for 2008.

A lot has happened since this contest started. The public had a vast amount of great nominees to sift through. And the finalists they chose made the judges' job that much more difficult.

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.

Microsoft, a company that isn't known for working tightly with the open source world, has announced the Microsoft Web Installer. This beta application is aimed at helping Web site administrators install and configure widely-used Web Applications onto a Windows-powered server.

Surprisingly, Microsoft is aiding administrators with installing popular open source software packages -- including WordPress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, phpBB and Graffiti CMS.

If you are one of those developers who likes both Microsoft and open source, then you are probably already familiar with the DotNetNuke application framework. If you are then Packt Publishing has just released a book you might be interested in called DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial.

Just because the researchers at Gartner chose to overlook open source offerings in their latest enterprise content management evaluation does not mean that decision makers within your organization should go the same route.

To help fill the not so minor gap left by Gartner, Infoworld recently compared five open source content management products that are worthy of any IT manager's shortlist -- though with Alfresco stacked up against the likes of Drupal, perhaps not the same shortlist.