The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on http://www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog http://apoorv.info/ on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point.
The final result was as follows:
1. Joomla!- $5,000
2. Drupal - $3,000
3. Plone - $2,000from http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-content-management-system-award-winner-announced
As chx says - $3,000 buys a server.
What is more interesting, is what were the criteria for choice/points. This is a ~16000 survey.
Oh, yes, Joomla tribe - well done :).
update:
on drupal.org
on joomla.org
aplology: sorry for the occasional spelling mistake. I might upgrade to ff2.0.
Great publicity for OS and Drupal
Packt is doing a good job of supporting these OS projects and validating their quality. Help get the word out to an even wider audience by lending your Digg vote for the announcement.
From the horse's mouth
Yes, interesting, but ~16000 only choose the top five. The judges then condensed that down to 1 winner and runner-ups.
From the horse's mouth:
But it's good for everyone concerned! Well done Open Source!
true, still it is
true, still it is interesting.
Think of it as a market survey. What do people look for in a CMS? What do they value? What do they hate? and so on