Packt's Best Open Source in 2011

Packt Publishing completed another edition of their annual Open Source Awards festivity, by announcing this year' winners.

Since early August they've been taking nominations and holding voting stages and now all the votes have been counted and the final results are in.

This last week, from Monday till Friday, Packt's PR department blogged and tweeted this year's winners and runner-ups, keeping suspense at an all time high amongst contestants and industry professionals alike.

In the Most Promising Open Source Project, the winner was ImpressPages, followed by 1st runner up SEO Panel and 2nd runner up Chamilo LMS. The other two nominated projects were FLOW3 CMS and Netter Framework.

For Best Open Source Business Application, the award went to PrestaShop, winning the award two years in a row. Second was nopCommerce and third was OpenCart. The other two nominated projects were Magento and SugarCRM.

In the Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries category, voters and judges chose jQuery Mobile as winner, PhoneGap as 1st runner up and Sencha Touch as 2nd runner up. The other two nominated projects were FoneMonkey and Min3D.

This year's Open Source Multimedia Software Award went to Blender, followed in order by GIMP and Inkscape. The other two nominated projects were Airtime and Krita. To be noted this is Blender's second win as well, after winning it last year also.

The third year-to-year award repeat came in the Open Source JavaScript Library category, where as expected jQuery won again, as it did in 2010. Runner ups were Dojo and Sencha (ExtJS). Also nominated were YUI (Yahoo User Interface Library) and Raphael JS.

For the main event, the Open Source CMS Award, winner was declared Joomla, followed by Druapl and Plone. The other tow nominated projects were SilverStripe and mojoPortal.

Yes, you read correctly, WordPress is not the winner, mainly because it did not receive enough nominations from the open source community to qualify for the final voting stage.