Best PHP Open Source CMS: Drupal wins, Joomla and CMS Made Simple tie for second
Drupal was announced the winner in Packt Publishing's 2008 award for Best PHP Based Open Source CMS.
The Award for the best Open Source Content Management System written on a PHP/MySQL platform is today announced as Drupal. Receiving $2,000 as the judges’ and publics favourite, Drupal finishes ahead of Joomla! and CMS Made Simple, who finished on equal points as joint runners up and collect $500 each.
As Packt notes, this has become an annual tug of war between Drupal and Joomla! for top spot in these awards.
In the end, it was a combination of features that swayed the final votes and secured first position. The judges were complimentary about Drupal’s excellent installation of the system, modules and updates and especially the way it handles any errors during these processes. Comments were also reserved for Drupal’s strong social applications capabilities and how it integrates seamlessly with content management.
As most people know by now, I have a personal bias toward Drupal and have excused myself from judging on a panel where Drupal is a finalist. So, instead of adding my own comments, I suggest we keep an eye open for the personal blogs of those sitting on the 2008 judging panel. Perhaps we'll find some details to how they may have judged the finalists for this year's best PHP open source CMS.
About the Author
Bryan Ruby is owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn more about content management systems without the sales pitch. Although Bryan has been active in the content management community for a number of years, please do not call him a CMS expert. Bryan's preference is to be labeled a CMS enthusiast.
Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government. Away from the computer he enjoys his family, bicycling, camping, and the outdoors.
Comments
#1 Not the winner
Winning in the category PHP open Source CMS means losing in Overall best CMS. The Categories are a bit hard to get at Packt. One can only win in one category, and the overall Category is a bit more prestigious I think.
Or did they change the rules?
Anyway, this Competition only goes to show Joomla and Drupal are the biggest players in the PHP OSS CMS World. The rest is not very thrilling, unless one of the others can grow up to the size and wide adoption of those two projects...
#2 I agree if
either Joomla! or CMS Made Simple (or any other PHP-based CMS) wins the overall award. Seems illogical to me that one PHP-based CMS can be judged as the best PHP-based CMS and another PHP-based CMS can be still be judged as best overall.
#3 Rule Change?
http://www.packtpub.com/award
#4 Comment fixed?
I noticed there was a bug for anonymous users to comment. Using some development code to see if this can be fixed. Sorry, but a live test is about the only way I confirm that this works.
#5 Failed to mention that these
Failed to mention that these comments were from me as Anonymous user... http://cmsreport.com/blog/best-php-open-... and http://cmsreport.com/blog/best-php-open-... .
Bryan, CMSReport.com
#6 Winning The Best PHP Open
Winning The Best PHP Open Source CMS award ... That's great news. And about Overall category... It's not over. Drupal is still a finalist.
#7 ... and winner in Overall
... and winner in Overall category for this year is ...
DRUPAL !
http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-ope...
#8 World domination
This is getting boring ;)
#9 Award Metrics
Next year I'd like to see a new data point going into the overall top CMS. Namely, a total cost of ownership (TCO) metric with a standard benchmark implementation across products.
The amount of functionality (and stability) that may be achieved with an all-services spend vs. software/services/annual maintenance is a factor that should be included in the analysis. This is how many enterprises are evaluating their options when procuring a new CMS. Needless to say, open-source products like Drupal are winning in many cases when TCO is factored into the decisionmaking process.
I'll add that it is just as easy to bugger a LAMP-based CMS implementation as it is an 'enterprise' WCM/ECM rollout. Not letting professionals do the implementation is akin to having a heart transplant by Dr. Nick of the Simpsons (well, perhaps ALMOST like that...).