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.
This is a ~16000 survey
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:
Please note that in deciding the final positions judges were asked to give their top three, with their first choice receiving 3 points, second receiving two points and third place one point.
But it's good for everyone concerned! Well done Open Source!
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
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.