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WordPress Wins Packt Overall Best Open Source CMS

00Web CMSWeb CMS|Nov 13, 2009
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WordPress Named Overall Best Open Source CMS
This week Packt (news, site) has announced one winner a day for its 2009 Open Source CMS awards. Already they've revealed that:

  • Plone (news, site) won 2009 Best Other Open Source CMS
  • Drupal (news, site) won 2009 Best Open Source PHP CMS and the first inaugural 2009 Hall of Fame award
  • ImpressCMS (news, site) won 2009 Most Promising Open Source CMS

Today's category is the last: 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS.

Congratulations to WordPress (news, site) for taking home the crown. Tied for runners up are MODx (news, site) and SilverStripe (news, site).

The WordPress project receives US$ 4,000 in prize money, while MODx and SilverStripe each receive US$ 2,500. In addition to the money, WordPress also becomes eligible for the Hall of Fame category next year.

In the winners' announcement, Packt Publishing stated that, "After Pixie and Pligg [tied for runners up] for the Most Promising CMS category, this is the second time the combined opinion of judges and the public was evenly divided for two CMSes, awarding each of them a first runner up spot."

About the Author

Dee-Ann is the Open Source and Open Standards Contributing editor for CMSWire. She's spent the last sixteen years writing on Linux, open source, open standards, and more.
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