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A new award was launched by Packt Publishing offering a first prize of $5,000 and the title of best open source Content Management System, 2006. Voted for by a panel of independent judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com, the award is designed to recognize and reward outstanding achievement in a high quality and highly competitive marketplace.
There is currently an abundance of high quality open source Content Management Systems available. Each lays claim to a dedicated team of developers and contributors working tirelessly to improve performance, design and accessibility, all so that it can be downloaded and implemented by its users, for free.


Ultimately, the most popular question to ask and seemingly most difficult to answer is simply, which one is the best? “We have been asked this question countless times” explains Damian Carvill, marketing manager at Packt, the company behind the award. “This is where the idea for an award came from” he reveals.
Packt is known as an enthusiastic supporter of Open Source and have been paying open source projects a percentage of its book sales for the last two years. “Packt subscribes to the belief that Open Source should be promoted, supported, and sustained whenever and however possible” says Carvill.