Once again, both Drupal and Wordpress are winners in CNET's annual Webware 100. According to CNET editor, Rafe Needleman, "nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the voting this year to pick the best Web 2.0 sites and services".

This isn't the first year that Drupal and Wordpress have won the Social and Publishing category in Webware 100.  As I mentioned last year, both Drupal and Wordpress are the only content management systems that have been winners in the Webware 100. That fact perhaps says a lot about not only these CMS but also the influence quality open source applications currently have with software consumers.

Drupal and Wordpress,  were the only CMS applications that made it to the winner list in CNET's hosted Webware 100.

Over 1.9 million votes were cast for the 300 finalists this year. These finalists were selected (by Webware editors) from a pool of over 5000 qualifying nominees. But the 100 winners were selected by popular vote. These winning 100 products represent the best of the Web, according the people who use it.

Both Drupal and Wordpress were two of ten winners in the "Publishing and Photography" category.  The remaining eight winners in Webware's 100 publishing category were web services and didn't provide stand-alone applications you can install directly on your server.