Drupal Wins Best Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award for Second Year in a Row

Posted by Amazon on October 31, 2008 at 1:01pm

The Drupal Association today announced that Drupal has won two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards this week - the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS. This marks the second consecutive year that Drupal has won Packt Publishing’s Overall Open Source CMS award. In addition, on Monday, Packt Publishing recognized leading Drupal contributor Earl Miles as a 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued Person (MVP).

To win the Best Open Source CMS Award two years in a row is quite an achievement for Drupal,

said Damian Carvill, Packt Spokesman.

In what were extremely close categories, with high quality finalists, Drupal’s strength and power shone through for the judges. Particular praise was reserved for the development team’s dedication to improving Drupal alongside building a loyal and passionate community, that has enabled its growth, adoption and advocacy. Congratulations from Packt both to the development team and to the community!

The Packt Publishing awards highlight the growing impact the open source Drupal social publishing system is having on the content management system (CMS) market, specifically with a growing number of case studies in vertical industries such as media and entertainment companies, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations. Drupal usage has grown exponentially in recent years with more than 2 million downloads and an estimated 250,000 Drupal websites worldwide. The Drupal community includes more than 350,000 registered members on Drupal.org.

These awards are a testament to the valuable contributions from dedicated Drupal community members around the globe,

said Drupal project lead and Acquia CTO Dries Buytaert.

Working together, the Drupal community is building the future of the dynamic web so that anyone can quickly build great social publishing websites.

The full press release is now available.

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Congratulations

Posted by jaalcant on October 31, 2008 at 1:44pm

Well done!!!

YES, Congratulations to us too!

Posted by auhlrich on October 31, 2008 at 4:34pm

All Drupallers are winners!
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we need an awards page!

Posted by alexanderpas on October 31, 2008 at 2:27pm

we need an awards page!

less == more

+1 Agreed

Posted by ultimateboy on October 31, 2008 at 4:39pm

Great Idea.

Take that suggestion to the redesign group.

Congrats Drupal!

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Thumbs Up!!!

Posted by greylogic on October 31, 2008 at 2:29pm

Congrats to all members of the community.

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Congratulations!

Posted by dnaromance on October 31, 2008 at 2:29pm

Congratulations!

I've voted it! I know it!

Yes! and it's finally Drupal won!

This is for all the drupallers!

Thanks the community!

Best regards,
kailoon

Congratulations Well

Posted by gj23488313 on October 31, 2008 at 2:38pm

Congratulations

Well done!!!

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I knew it. Drupal wins

Posted by kuanjian on October 31, 2008 at 2:51pm

I knew it. Drupal wins again.

Congrats!

Congrats Drupal! And an even

Posted by davexoxide on October 31, 2008 at 3:10pm

Congrats Drupal!
And an even bigger congrats to Earl, that's outstanding but than again so is all your work.

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Now, we can break out the

Posted by evolvingweb on October 31, 2008 at 3:12pm

Now, we can break out the champagne.

IEEEEHAAAAAA!

Posted by betz on October 31, 2008 at 3:17pm

IEEEEHAAAAAA!

Please Digg

Posted by robertDouglass on October 31, 2008 at 4:47pm

Great job everyone.

Just like you voted on the Packt site, please take the time and Digg the story as well: http://digg.com/software/Drupal_Best_Open_Source_CMS_WINNER

The first step is winning the award. The next step is letting the world know about it.

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Now available on reddit

Posted by beeradb on October 31, 2008 at 4:58pm

Now available on reddit too...

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7ajxv/drupal_wins_best_overa...

Nice to be on the winning team

Posted by JohnForsythe on October 31, 2008 at 7:22pm

Dugg and Reddit'd.

I also added the Digg widget to the front page of DrupalModules.

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DUGG!!!

Posted by New Oceans on November 1, 2008 at 9:06am

Congrats to the community!

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Dugg

Posted by BioALIEN on November 16, 2008 at 9:19pm

Don't think we'll hit the Digg homepage since they changed their algo. But dugg anyway.

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Wow, keep them coming.

Posted by hectorplus on November 1, 2008 at 12:35am

Wow, keep them coming. Drupal's the best.

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Congrats Drupal! It's really

Posted by Markwebuk on November 1, 2008 at 12:39am

Congrats Drupal!

It's really time for some champagne ;)

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I'm happy to use drupal

Posted by alliax on November 1, 2008 at 12:50am

I'm happy to use drupal exclusively and not falling for joomla. I knew from the start of the finalist announcement that drupal would win both best php cms and best overall cms, why? Because drupal is the best of the finalist, period.

Last year Drupal won the best overall cms award but didn't win the best php cms (was second behind joomla) why? Because of a stupid rule Packt had set up which said one cms couldn't win several categories. This year they remove this stupid rule and so Drupal won both as it should have already last year!

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Congratulations to all Drupal's developpers !

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Congratulations Drupal

Posted by LorenzoG on November 1, 2008 at 2:04am

I want to congratulate Drupal and the Drupal community for the well earned awards. It is great that we have such good open source projects and communities. This year it's Drupal's year. I'm already looking forward for next year and a new exiting battle ;-) .. again Congratulations!

LorenzoG
"Joomla user"

http://www.industributiken.se

Great Spirit

Posted by abdullah5588 on November 1, 2008 at 9:36am

I appreciate your spirit buddy :). And yeah it is really good to have such competition. It will only help both DRUPAL and JOOMLA to be more improved and enhanced.

Emm Abdullah,
InfoByte Solutions

Abdullah
Information Planet
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Congratulations

Posted by meefanyung on November 1, 2008 at 5:11am

Thank you for every contribute and every group team in drupal community

you are the one who make drupal win the award

Mabroook Drupal. As years

Posted by q8doc on November 1, 2008 at 7:09am

Mabroook Drupal.

As years pass, it improves, it develops, is and will ever be the best

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ummmmmmmaaaaaaaaaa

Posted by jhalak on November 1, 2008 at 7:39am

I am a new drupaller. In time of choosing the CMS I was confused which one I should chose for me. But intentionally I took drupal. But after learning it I came to know about its power and flexibility. And fortunately I have fallen in love with it. After hearing this news I have realized that that was not a wrong decision. Congratulation, to all the developers who have developed this framework and who are working directly and indirectly to enrich this, at this achievement.

That's one small step for Drupal...

Posted by New Oceans on November 1, 2008 at 9:23am

...one giant leap for Content Management! ;)

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Drupal Rocks... It is the ultimate CMS

Posted by abdullah5588 on November 1, 2008 at 9:31am

Congrats to all the DRUPAL fans and hats off to all of the great devs and contributers who continuously work hard to make it better and better.

It's been around a year since I started with Content Management Systems. And I am proud of myself that I selected DRUPAL as the CMS for making dynamic sites. Made several sites with the help of my guys at InfoByte Solutions

Last two projects are:
www.infobytesol.com/conan
www.infobytesol.com/mooloolaba

Big Congratualtions to all the Drupal guys once again.

Long Live Drupal

Emm Abdullah,
InfoByte Solutions

Abdullah
Information Planet
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Well deserved

Posted by Leeteq on November 1, 2008 at 10:01am

Congratulations to all, well deserved.

[FYI: Feb. 2012: User name changed from "DanielTheViking" to "Leeteq".]

Congratulation and Cheers

Posted by merto@drupal.org on November 1, 2008 at 11:52am

Congratulation and Cheers, Drupal deserve such recognition.

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Way to go!

Posted by joserey on November 1, 2008 at 12:13pm

Congratulations everyone! This supports further our decision to use drupal this year over other CMS! It's a good feeling too that we're in one great community. Way to go!

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COngratulations

Posted by DrupalDummy on November 1, 2008 at 1:58pm

Congratulations to Drupal community.

Awesome!! Congrats to the Drupal Universe of People!!!

Posted by universeinside on November 1, 2008 at 4:27pm

Awesome!! Congrats to the Drupal Universe of People!!!

I voted for this too ;)

BR,

Nicolás Amado
http://universeinside.com

BR,

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Hongera

Posted by geyids on November 1, 2008 at 6:13pm

Hongera=Congrats in Swahili (African Language) I'm proud that my vote counted too and I'm part of a great world

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congratulations !!

Posted by Joanzo on November 2, 2008 at 5:57am

yes vote 100% that drupal is the best CMS, because of its flexibility !

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Great news indeed

Posted by ScoutBaker on November 2, 2008 at 10:03am

That is definitely great news for Drupal! It's a great compliment to the Drupal community.

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Congratulations! I voted for

Posted by Konstantin_by on November 2, 2008 at 10:46am

Congratulations! I voted for drupal!!

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Way to go !!

Posted by vkr11 on November 2, 2008 at 4:50pm

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congrats drupal

Posted by amedjones on November 2, 2008 at 7:53pm

Nice work Drupal, two years in a row, lets now double that
been a drupal fan since i first layed my eyes on her and always will

i want to be Drupal when I grow up

We won, You won, They won ...

Posted by Wolfflow on November 3, 2008 at 12:56am

Thanks to every single, member of our great community: ROCK DRUPAL

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congrats!!!!

Posted by Sree on November 3, 2008 at 4:44am

Congrats to all !!!!!!!!

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yay

Posted by STL_Realtor on November 17, 2008 at 4:45pm

I always knew it was true !! now I can beat up those joomla bullies at my local coffee shop

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Congratulations

Posted by guidocecilio on February 3, 2009 at 9:40pm

I knew it since August 2006. Thanks Drupal for be there and thanks very much for all the community.
We need an awards page as said alexanderpas.
Best regards