PACKT Publishing Ltd is back with CMS (Content Management Systems) awards for the year 2009. This year, the awards are available in the following categories

• Hall of Fame
• Best Overall Open Source CMS
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS

Hall of Fame is newly added and is designed to create competition among the previous winners of the Overall Open Source CMS Award. The finalists in this category are Drupal and Joomla!. This is further sub-categorized with their themes and extensions. Go to Hall of Fame Finalists.

For the Best Overall Open Source CMS, the finalists are DotNetNuke, MODx, SilverStripe, WordPress and XOOPS. For the Most Promising Open Source CMS, the finalists are ImpressCMS, Manhali, Pixie, Pligg and Redaxscript. For the Best Open Source PHP CMS, Drupal, Joomla!, MODx, TYPOlight and WordPress and for the Best Other Open Source CMS, DotNetNuke, dotCMS, mojoPortal, Plone and WebGUI. You can cast your vote at PACKT Publishing’s Awards Page (packtpub.com/award)

With Unix Servers being used and preferred by many, there’s no doubt that Joomla, Drupal and WordPress will top the list. Secondly, they are Open Source. Joomla is the most powerful and flexible Content Management System, and Drupal, though similar to Joomla, is not as flexible as the former, but is easy to lean. WordPress is a well-known and user-friendly Blogging Platform used by billions of Bloggers across the globe.