Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards 2009

Packt Publishing has announce that WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. While WordPress occupied the top spot in the Overall Award, the other two extremely popular finalists MODx and SilverStripe tied for the first runner up position.

They are also announced that Drupal has won the inaugural Hall of Fame Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. Along with the competition amongst the previous winners, Hall of Fame also featured two subcategory Awards named after the participants, "Drupal Award", and "Joomla! Award". In other category Drupal has being the winner for the 2nd time with the Best Open Source PHP CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award.

ImpressCMS has been the chosen to win the Most Promising Open Source CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. ImpressCMS has featured in the top three in this category for the second time in a row, and has lived up to its reputation this year by winning the top spot. Pixie and Pligg, on the other hand, featured in this category for the first time and managed to impress a lot of judges with their quality and support.

Plone has won for the Best Other Open Source CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. Since the introduction of this category in 2007, Plone has consistently featured among the top three, having won it in 2008.

This final announcement marks the end of the 2009 Open Source CMS Award.

Here are the winner for the Packtpub open source CMS Award 2009 for each category :

The Overall Best Open Source CMS Award 2009 :

WordPress: $4,000

MODx: $2,000

SilverStripe: $2,000

The Inaugural Hall of Fame Award 2009 :

Drupal: $4,000

Joomla!: $2,000

The Most Promising Open Source CMS 2009 :

ImpressCMS: $2,000

Pixie: $1,000

Pligg: $1,000

The Best Open Source PHP CMS 2009 :

Drupal: $2,000

WordPress: $500

Joomla!: $500

The Best Other Open Source CMS 2009 :

Plone: $2,000

dotCMS: $500

mojoPortal: $500