The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS). The winning CMS will be awarded $5,000. First runner-up and second runner-up will not go away empty handed, taking away $3,000 and $2,000 respectively. Today, Packt announced the five finalists that will be put forward to the final voting stage:

After six weeks and registering almost twelve thousand nominations, the Open Source CMS Award finalists can be revealed. The following final five received the most public nominations during the course of the six weeks and are listed in alphabetical order:

1. Drupal
2. e107
3. Joomla
4. Plone
5. Xoops

Thanks to those who helped nominate Drupal!