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Today Packtpub announced the winners of the Most Promising Open Source CMS for 2008. First place went to Silverstripe, second was CMSMadeSimple, and a tie for third went to MiaCMS and ImpressCMS.

What intrigues me about this is that both MiaCMS and ImpressCMS are forks of existing systems.

PacktPublishing recently announced the finalists for the 2008 Open Source CMS Award and much to my surprise WordPress wasn't among them! (Click here for the nomination page.)

Drupal and Joomla! are there, and it might be a fight for the Best Overall and Best PHP between the two of them. (My votes went to Drupal, of course!)

According to Packt Publishing, WordPress wins best Social Networking CMS. And I think it's a complete sham.

From their site:

Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award Finalists have been announced. (List and vote here.) I'm a bit disappointed that Habari didn't make the list, but I'm not shocked about that.

Below are the categories with the finalists and my thoughts on the selections.

Best Social Networking Open Source CMS Finalists
Drupal
Elgg
LifeType
Moodle
WordPress

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com.

I guess it's that time again! Nominations are open until August 31st and systems can be nominated in the following categories:

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