It’s official, but it was a squeaker:
The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on 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 CMSPros 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 five finalists were Joomla!, Drupal, Plone, Xoops and e107. (There is no truth to the rumour that finalists were selected for their names’ ability to elicit blank stares when you pitch them to clients.)
Thankfully, the results of the U.S. midterms were a damn sight more decisive.
By the way, Packt offers a breakdown of each CMS’s strong points, according to the judges. It would have been nice to see some weaknesses as well, but it’s still a handy cheat sheet for the next time you go CMS hunting.
