2006 Open Source Content Management System Award Winner Announced

Packt Publishing announced the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award. Joomla! is the lucky winner, with Drupal and Plone coming second and third respectively. Joomla! was selected by a panel of judges, and 16,000 votes from users on www.PacktPub.com.

More than 70 different Open Source Content Management Systems were nominated for the award with the top five being selected for the final. After eight weeks of voting from visitors to www.PacktPub.com and judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and CMSPros, Joomla! triumphed with the most votes, winning $5,000.  

Joomla! is the youngest CMS of the five finalists having been forked by the then Mambo development team in August 2005. Joomla! was chosen due its ease of installation and use along with the active development and community that supports the project.