Article : Can Drupal beat Wordpress?

Packt Publishing in England has named Drupal the best open source CMS for 2008.
This is the same award WordPress won in 2007.

UPDATE: Bryan House of Acquia writes to say that WordPress won the 2007 award as best social networking CMS, while Drupal won an overall CMS category. (Curious if Drupal finished second in the category WordPress won, but that’s the source of my confusion.)

So has Drupal overtaken WordPress? That’s hard to do, in either politics or business, and maybe we’re comparing apples to oranges.

That’s because in its latest press release Packt said Drupal won this award last year. (Not true.)

Also, when our own Dennis Howlett learned of last year’s decision, he told Larry Dignan WordPress was not a CMS at all. Larry then corrected his own post to note that ZDNet, which runs WordPress, also runs a separate CMS on top of it. Read more..

Courtesy : Blogs.zdnet.com