Packt Publishing announced the five finalists for each category of its 2008 Open Source CMS Award. Last year, Drupal was the overall winner. Voting for the winners in each of the five categories opens September 1 and ends on October 20, 2008. This "public vote" will then be combined with votes by a panel of judges for the top three CMS in each category will then be voted for by a panel of judges.
Incidentally, this year I'll be on the panel of judges for the Most Promising Open Source CMS.
Overall Open Source CMS Award
Most Promising Open Source CMS
Best PHP Open Source CMS
Best Other Open Source CMS
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Wow
These are the same CMS head-to-head contest last year, but some disappeared, with the new addition of DotNetNuke. Odd..where's MODx?
The 'Best PHP Open Source CMS' and the 'Best Other Open Source CMS' are confusing.
Why not change the "Other" to 'Best ASP Open Source CMS? Oooppps!-calling Bill Gates :)
Maybe They could be
Maybe They could be called..
"Best .NET Open Source CMS"
In the end the same CMS will
In the end the same CMS will the winner over and over again. Because other CMSs will disappear, while the top one will be stronger and stronger.
Darwin
Although Drupal is one of my favorites, I'm a big fan of DotNetNuke and Plone...so I hope they do well this year.
While I think you're right that Drupal and Joomla are probably some of the stronger CMS out there...I'm not sure if that will always be the case. Sometimes a CMS can become so popular and so big that it becomes difficult to keep its agility and adapt with the times. For instance Drupal's community sometimes still debate about the need for a rich text editor (WYSIWYG) in its core (IMO a must have these days). Joomla on the other hand seems to get usability better than Drupal, but they've had some growing pains as they've adapted from being a traditional CMS to one that with more inclusive social software (again IMO).
The fact is, the market is so competitive that it takes only a few missteps by a project to lose its "market share". I think when open source projects become popular there is a lot more strategic planning that has to take place than many people realize.