Packt OSS CMS Awards
Packt has $10,000 up for a “Best Open Source CMS” contest. The details are a bit vague on what the prizes will be awarded on, but I’m going to put my picks up here in no specific order.
eZpublish: Best Commercial/Enterprise support
Drupal: Best Community support, also best community CMS.
Joomla: Not one of my favorites but has a ton of modules, and good community developer support.
There are a ton of CMSs out there, but in the PHP world these three are the only ones that I’ve evaluated that stand up to my interpretation of a useful CMS. I’m also talking purely about “consumer” content management here, not development frameworks or other complex systems.
Note: I didn’t want to say this, but I think it’ll go to drupal. The CMS isn’t talked about a whole lot, but it is used by a Lot of great sites, such as the new twit.tv site. I’ve also talked to a couple big companies who are looking through PHP’s CMS offerings, and I’ve been surprised how many times drupal has come up. Good stuff there.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Drupal definitely has a big chance of winning. I personally also think Textpattern would be a good winner, but I think it’s less popular. Based on popularity, WordPress might be a good contender but I personally don’t feel that positive about it. Not negative, I just don’t feel WP should win.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Except wordpress isn’t a CMS, it does blogging VERY well, it’s “pages” do form some sort of content management, but nothing what anyone who is serious would need.
As far as a blogging platform, it rocks
July 24th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
the best open source (W)CMS i know is typo3.
drupal is nice, and i can use it to make websites, but an CMS is much more.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
The url for the Packt Award is:
http://www.packtpub.com/award/
October 6th, 2006 at 4:09 am
Martin: Clearly, you haven’t used Drupal enough. We’re so glad to be rid of TYPO3, its horrible markup and its counter-intuitive concepts such as the idea that every site is hierarchically structured not to mention TypoScript… gah! Drupal is after all a content management framework!
January 29th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Besides the three CMS mentioned above, there are many other Open Sourced PHP CMS such as GeekLog, Mambo and XOOPS. This list has it all.http://www.wareprise.com/open-source-php-content-management/
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