Allen Ellis

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Allen Ellis is the creative director for ocPortal, a PHP open-source CMS.

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Allen Ellis: Why the Packt CMS Competition is Broken, and How to Fix It

By now, many of us are excited to see the finalists for this year's Packt Publishing Open Source CMS (Content Management System) Award competition, the annual contest in which dozens of companies compete to be highlighted as the year's finest Content Management System.

CMS Award '09Entering its fourth year, this competition has grown nearly five-fold and is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the CMS industry. But as successful as the competition has become, it sadly suffers from inherent issues which prevent it from truly presenting today's gamut of CMS choices in a valuable way.