Wordpress – one of the most popular CMS of today has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS award for the year 2009. The Open Source Content Management (CMS) Award is an initiative of Packt Publishing – a long time supporter and promoter of Open Source projects and concepts. Since the award was launched in 2006, the awards have become an important event in the Open source calendar.

A visibly pleased Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, responded to the news, “The entire WordPress community is honoured to accept this award.” Mullenweg further added, “Every day thousands of new people are embracing WordPress to power not just their blog but their entire website and community without compromising on usability or scalability as you would with a legacy CMS.”

MODx and Silverstripe tied for the first runner up position, after Wordpress.
ImpressCMS won the Most promising CMS Award, while, Pixie and Pligg tied for the first runners up.

Other winners included:
Drupal: (inaugural) Hall of Fame award, Best Open Source PHP CMS
Joomla: 2nd Runner Up (Open Source PHP CMS)
Plone: Best Other Open Source CMS

The award witnessed over 12,000 nominations and around 23,000 votes across the five categories.

Complete details are available on the Packt Publishing website.