Joomla! Named Top Open Source Content Management System
Joomla Has Now Won a Packt Open Source Award Three Times Since 2006
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/15/11 -- , one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced Joomla has won the Packt Publishing award for the top open source CMS. Now in its sixth year, many consider the as a top honor for an open source project. Joomla won the award based on a combination of public voting and input by a panel of judges consisting of open source luminaries.
"Although around since 2005, Joomla really reinvented itself this year with the introduction of Joomla 1.6 and 1.7, the first product releases for the CMS since 2008," said Julian Copes of Packt Publishing. "Furthermore, Joomla realized dramatic growth this year as evidenced by its number of downloads and documented government sites powered by Joomla. We are proud to honor Joomla with its third Packt Open Source Award since we launched it six years ago."
Joomla previously won the same award, the Packt Open Source CMS Award, in 2006 and also won the Packt Best PHP Open Source CMS Award 2007. Some of the milestones the open source CMS reached this year that contributed to it winning the Packt award include:
Joomla surpassed . Although it launched in 2005, this number is only from 2007 to the present since that is when Joomla began documenting downloads.
It more than 2,900 government sites worldwide powered by Joomla. These include the U.S. Central Command, U.K. Ministry of Defense and many more.
Info-Tech Research recently Joomla powers more than 1.5 million websites. These include Citibank, eBay, General Electric and many more.
"Joomla's documented growth over the past year is a bi-product of our broad, diverse community spanning hundreds of thousands of people around the world," said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, the not-for-profit created to provide organizational, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. "The people and open source experts have spoken with this award and we are honored that they have acknowledged what all of these people in our community passionately believe -- Joomla is the absolutely best platform to power websites, Intranets and blogs."
Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on producing cutting-edge books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike. Packt's books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Their solutions-based books give readers the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies they're using to get the job done. For more information, please visit and for information on the Open Source Award, go to .
Joomla is one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS). With of the Web running on Joomla, it is used for everything from small personal websites and blogs to some of the largest enterprise, highest trafficked websites and Intranets including those operated by Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's, Sony, and . Due to its power and elegance, the most inexperienced user to the most seasoned web developer can use it. Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned and operated. The Joomla community does not rely on contributions from large software development companies and the project is a true collaboration of thousands of open source developers and millions of everyday users who account for its software being downloaded more than 26 million times to date. For more information, visit .
Andrew Goss
VOXUS PR for Joomla
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