Joomla! settled runner up for the best content management system 2008 round up organized by Packt Publishing. The heavyweights in the award were Drupal, CMS Made Simple, and Plone.

Johan Janssens, Joomla! developer was awarded the Open Source MVP 2008 for his contributions to the Joomla! project.

Joomla Core Team member Andrew Eddie asserted, “This has made me more determined to do better next year.”

We’ll hope that in the next round up in the coming years Joomla! will bag the prize!