For the second year in a row Joomla has won the ‘Best PHP Open Source Content Management System” award for 2007.
Runner up was Drupal and e107.
The judges made some very interesting observations:
“Most notably its good front-end for administrators and end-users, which gives users a simple and traditional company website straight out of the box. Once again, judges commented on the size and responsiveness of the community, which translates to potential problems being dealt with quickly.”
Packt Publishing confirmed that Joomla! 1.5 (which is still a Release Candidate) was the basis for their decision.
The judges also gestured that Joomla! is one of the biggest recent success stories in open source. The first release was only in September 2005 and has since grown to become the most downloaded CMS on the planet.
