Packt Awards News & Articles

It's that time. Time to have a look at the finalists for the Packt Publishing (news, site) 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. Announced in August, the Open Source Awards offers US$ 24,000 in prizes to the best in open source content management solution.

Here's a look at who made the finalist list and what happens next.

Now in its fourth year, the Packt Awards (news, site)  offer US$ 24,000 in prizes to the best in open source content management software. Will Drupal walk off with the gold again? Or will Joomla or DotNetNuke steal the crown?

On the homepage of MODx, amongst an unusual but welcome absence of pseudo-corporate gibberish, lies a strange adducement. The system is, we are told, “100% buzzword compliant”.

I can think of better ways I would like my product to be regarded, but now the organization has a genuinely impressive claim for their product: they have just won Packt Publishing’s “Most Promising Open Source CMS” award, beating off strong competition from Typolight and dotCMS, amongst others, to secure the title.

If open source truly is the future, and these guys are the future of open source, then the news will make a lot of Web CMS industry people sit up and take notice.

As Packt Press continues to rattle off the awards this week, its Joomla’s turn in the spotlight. Today’s prize is for “Best PHP Open Source Content Management System”.

Quoting the Packt site, “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 runners up in this category were Drupal and e107 respectively. Previous winners this week were WordPress for Best Open Source Social Networking CMS and mojoPortal for Best Other Open Source Content Management System.

And the fun’s not over yet. No sir. Rolling right along you avid CMS’ers have both the Most Promising Open Source CMS award and the Overall Winner award to look forward to.

With the open source cms market being dominated by PHP/MySQL based solutions, our friends at Packt Publishing are recognizing content management systems written in other languages

Thus with no further adieu, we congratulate mojoPortal for being named Best Other Open Source CMS for 2007.

mojoPortal is written in C# and runs under ASP.Net on Windows or under Mono on Linux and MacOS.

mojoPortal sports an impressive list features including:

• XHTML Compliant Content Management
• MyPage Personalization with WebParts
• Blogs
• Forums
• Event Calendar
• Image Gallery
• File Manager
• Authentication against the database, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Open ID, or Windows Live ID
• An Interchangeable data access layer with support for MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, FirebirdSql
• Skinnable Design
• RSS Feed Aggregator
• Search
• Localization
• Ability to host multiple sites on 1 installation and 1 database
• Easily Customizable User Profile

If that list doesn’t impress you, maybe the fact that mojoPortal beat out both Plone and Silva to win first place will.

The official announcement from Packt Publishing can be found here, and more information about mojoPortal can be found on the official website.

According to the company, the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS). This year they’ve broken the award down into a number of categories:

• Overall Winner
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS
• Best Social Networking CMS

And the first set of winners was just announced this morning.

After a long nomination process, Packt has announced the list of finalists for its Open Source Awards.

In previous years there has only been one award and one prize. This year saw the inclusion of four new categories.

Has it been a year already? Apparently it has, as Packt Publishing releases a first look at the list of nominees for the 2007 Best Open Source CMS Awards.

The Packt Publishing Best Open Source CMS Award results are in …and its Joomla who has taken the first prize, with Drupal in a very close second place, and Plone finishing in third.