Packt Publishing announced that Drupal has won their Overall 2007 Open Source Content Management System Award.
After three intense months of voting, Packt Publishing can today announce that Drupal has won the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award. With 18,000 votes on Packt’s website, coupled with the expert opinions from a panel of judges, Drupal succeeds Joomla! as the overall winner and receives a cheque for $5,000.
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".
Packt Publishing is starting to announce the various winners in its Open Source CMS Awards. The first category announced was the Best Open Source Social Networking CMS.
Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.
Judges comments for their decisions included:
I'm hoping that later today the American version of ComputerWorld will carry the Dries Buytaert article I came across on their Australian site. The article is an interview with Dries and titled, "Drupal: from a drop in the ocean to a big fish in the CMS World". Yes, it's a catchy title for the interview, but I like sub-heading even more.
I'm still in need to read this InfoWorld article in its entirety, but thought it was worth mentioning now. InfoWorld's Mike Heck has written an article, Open source CMSes prove well worth the price, which reviews and compares five content management systems. The five CMS under review are Alfresco, DotNetNuke, Drupal, Joomla, and Plone.
The good news is that all five CMS ranked Very Good or higher. However, Alfresco was the only CMS that ranked Excellent with a score of 9.2. Plone 3.0 received the second highest ranking with a score of 8.6. DotNetNuke and Joomla tied for third and fourth place with a score of 8.4 which put Drupal a fraction lower with a score of 8.3. While none of these CMS ranked poorly, I'm sure the open source communities are bound to scrutinize over how the individual criteria were scored and ranked.
Steven Peck, associated with the Drupal project, wrote about an article he came across regarding a comparison of the vBulletin forum and Drupal's forum. The article is titled, Goodbye vBulletin, Part 1: Reasons to Switch. The author of the article writes:
The aim of this article is not to poke holes, or say ‘vBulletin sucks’, but to provide constructive criticism of a successful product, proving that vBulletin is not always the best choice. In places the article compares vBulletin to Drupal, this is the platform The Webmaster Forums will be switching to and represents many of the things vBulletin should—in our humble opinion—aspire to.
Mr. Peck's reaction to the article (and my emphasis in bold):
Now this was a interesting. A well written article on why one site is switching over to use Drupal's built in forum rather then continue to use vbulletin.
In other words, Peck and many of us that pay attention to how the forum applications stack up against CMS native forums don't see too many articles like this. It is rare to see someone using a standard forum application such as vBulletin, SMF, or phpBB switch over to Drupal primarily for its forum functionality.
I have had this itch to change the theme I'm using for CMSReport.com. I decided to scratch that itch. I'm currently playing with some freely available themes out there for the CMS I'm currently using (Drupal). The theme in use at CMS Report this week is LiteJazz by RoopleTheme.
So what do you think about the LiteJazz theme and is it an improvement over the theme we've been using the past year? Feel free to use the comments section below to voice your opinion.
I'm especially interested in two things:
One of the things I like about browsing the Web for posts on various CMS topics is that they always seem to show up on the Web when when I need them the most. For example, I'm starting to consider whether I'll continue to use osCommerce for some sites that I manage. While the yet to be released osCommerce 3.0 will likely be an option next year, I'm open to other possibilities. What I would like to see is a shopping cart that integrates well with a full CMS. In the past, I've found Joomla's Virtuemart extension and Drupal's e-Commerce module to fall just short of the clie
If you are reading this post, then congratulations...you are now seeing CMS Report on its new server (a Virtual Private/Dedicated Server). As I tweak the VPS in the following weeks, I may fall back on the old server from time to time but for the most part, I'm home. Today officially ends my grand-experiment of running a moderately busy Drupal site on the cheap.
I just can't believe the year Drupal is having. There has been an explosion of Drupal sites almost everywhere you turn. Drupal is very popular with the masses in 2007. So popular in fact, that I wonder as with all things popular if we'll be seeing 2008 as the backlash year against Drupal as it has quickly evolves as a litmus test for open source CMS (one of my predictions for 2008).
The latest Drupal-based site to flash on the screen of my browser is the portal (currently in beta) for the European Commission sponsored Science, Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF ) project. The site aims to be a community-driven platform for the production and distribution of educational materials. Its sustainability depends on the building of a strong community of users and participants of the platform. The site may actually be live by the time you read this post.