Drupal Awards

Drupal has won Packt Publishing's Open Source CMS Award for 2008. This is the second year in a row that Drupal has won the overall CMS award and is in addition to the Best PHP Based Open Source CMS Award for 2008.

Drupal has one the 2008 Best PHP Based Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing. It beat fellow finalists Joomla and CMS Made Simple, who ere tied for runner up. It seems that Drupal's highly module framework and thriving community are two factors that tipped the award in its favour.

Nominations are now open for the 2008 Open Source CMS Award. This is the third year that Packt are running the awards.

You can nominate your favorite open source CMS in four categories:

• Overall Winner
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS

Drupal is the overall winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, edging out Joomla and CMS Made Simple, who came 2nd and 3rd respectively.

The Open Source CMS Award is run my Packt Publishing and is selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. There were over 18,000 votes.