Best Open Source PHP CMS: Joomla wins, Drupal second and e107 third
By golly, Joomla has been awarded as the Best PHP Open Soure CMS in Packt Publishing's 2007 awards.
Joomla! is today revealed as the Award's third category winner, claiming Best Open Source PHP Content Management System. Last year's overall winner came out on top ahead of Drupal in second and e107 in third place and receives $2,000.
Joomla! was selected as the winner in the Best PHP category due to "its good front-end for administrators and end-users, which gives users a simple and traditional company website straight out of the box".
Now here is the interesting and confusing part, just because Joomla has won the Best PHP Open Souce does not mean they'll be winning the Overall Winner category. How can this be if the same five open source CMS (CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, Joomla, and PHP-Fusion) that were selected as finalists in the Best PHP are also in the Overall Winner Category? Well my friends, each category has a different panel of judges that may approach CMS applications with a different perspective.
You'll note that all the judges on the Best PHP panel come from a PHP-centric background. However, the judges in the Overall Winner panel are less language specific and perhaps takes a more well-rounded information system approach to content management systems. In other words, CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, and PHP-Fusion could easily be announced on Friday as the winner in the Overall category. Then again, Joomla! seems to have the lucky magic when it comes to these type of competitions.
Note - 4:39 PM CDT: rowanw also provided to CMS Report a similar story on the Best PHP award by Packt. He submitted the story about the same time we issued this story, so feel free to read his posted article for a different perspective. Thanks rowanw!
One would hope that the
One would hope that the judges have some influence on the winner, however with Wordpress taking the title for Best Social Networking CMS it doesn't give me much hope.
I wanna see some stats! Just how many votes does each CMS get and what do the judges really say?
Bryan - this is from the
Bryan - this is from the PackT rules:
A CMS cannot win more than one category. For example the Overall and Most Promising categories must be won by different CMS’s. This is to ensure that more than one open source CMS benefits from the Award
I'm hoping for Drupal on Friday. But, today, we're celebrating Joomla!'s recognition and it feels really good! It's been a long, hard year.
Amy Stephen
http://OpenSourceCommunity.org
Thanks for the reminder, I
Thanks for the reminder, I forgot that was in the rules.
Amy, you have a good
Amy, you have a good point. Though, I was thinking that the ranking would/should reflect the actual vote of how a CMS was judged...but a CMS could only be awarded prize money from one category. For example, if Joomla also wins the Overall category then Drupal would receive by default the award money in the Best PHP category.
This is only Pact's second year for the award...so I'm sure they will learn a lot from this year on the need for better clarification. At least, I'm likely to suggest some improvements to them... :-) Hoqwcwe, I'd rather see this competion as is than no compeition at all for the open source projects.
I'm guessing (?) that
I'm guessing (?) that Overall was figured first, then the other winners were determined, given the rankings and rules. That would make sense to me and be a great way to provide more opportunity to celebrate. Honestly, I mean it when I say there is not a loser in the bunch - everyone freely giving. Fantastic.
I agree with you in that I don't mind the competition at all *provided* it never gets in the way of open sharing between project - and thus far, from my perspective, it only seems to have brought us closer together. So, keep it rolling, PackT and great job to all of the projects helping liberate (computing) knowledge to the world.
Congratulations to Joomla! And, Good luck Drupal! :-)
Amy Stephen
http://OpenSourceCommunity.org
What if Drupal wins it all?
Correct
> I think Drupal has won!!!
Correct http://www.packtpub.com/article/drupal-w...
p.s. this WYSIWYG opens a blank popup when trying to add a link or image (using FF3).
Drupal wins
Yes, going to have to get something out (unless someone beats me to it)).
I've noticed that it sometimes takes a few seconds before the link window loads fully (yes frustrating, I know). What browser are you using?
Firefox 3 (aka
Firefox 3 (aka Minefield).
This is the only source of the popup:
I'd kill to take the WYSIWYG out of comments. ;)
Cutting edge WYSIWYG?
Non-geeks be for warned, geek-talk up ahead.
I'll take a look at the gui text editor I'm using, FCKeditor, and see what can be done. FCKeditor has a 2.5 beta that fixes some of the compatibility issues with Firefox 3 alpha. Meanwhile, I think there is being work done on the FCKeditor Drupal module that is being done to make it compatible in 2.5. Once Drupal.org's maintenance work is done and the site is back up...I'll go check.
In the meantime and if so desired, you should be able to hit "Source" in the text editor we're using if you wish to "remove" the WYSIWYG.