WordPress Won 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS Award
I think this is a good news for all WordPress users.
WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.
“From Blog Software to Full-Featured CMS”
Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, was very excited to learn about the good news because it is the first time that WordPress have won this award. This is no small feat because WordPress was designed to be a “blog” software and not a CMS ( Content Management System).
Tied for runners up are MODx and SilverStripe.
WordPress receives US$ 4,000 in prize money, while MODx and SilverStripe each receive US$ 2,500.
Aside from winning the top spot in the Overall Award, WordPress also made its way into the top five for the first time in Best Open Source PHP CMS Category.
According to the award site, WordPress outranked Drupal (Winner) by a very slight margin. I guess WordPress has the best chance to win this category by next year.
Matt , in his blog, wrote “ Every member of the WordPress community, from core developer to beginning user, should be proud to be part of this momentum: congratulations to us all!”


I’m glad WordPress won! I use the software myself. But really, is there any viable competition?
I’m using wordpress now, so Bravo! But I still have 9 of my blogs at blogger. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
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Congratulations to WordPress… and to the users too..
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I can’t say that I’m suprised. WordPress gives something magical and it’s popularity is still rising as more and more people are using this handful device of controlling web resources and providing easy way of publishing articles. I think it will be used for many years.
Just created another blog based on WordPress
Still need more time to get used to
Just created another blog based on WordPress
It’s a bit difficult compared to Blogger easy interface
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