Joomla is an Excellent CMS - one of a growing band of superb opensource products. Often the preference for one or the other gets very tribal - as you see even here, more like supporting a football team than making an informed choice.

We find Joomla possibly the most versatile of the CMS, giving a hige range of options in the extensions directory that "future proofs" a web site against however you might want it to grow in the future.

Wordpress we also use a lot, but more for blog type sites. It is really intuitive for the user to use, but despite the continuing efforst of its community we don't yet find it as good for really comprehensive "portal" type sites.

Drupal is also excellent, but for most it is a little more technical to use. We tend to use it when the taxonomy, granular access control, or the CCK content types are important.

Joomla looks about to catch up on at least two of these fronts with the release of 1.6 now in Beta, Doubtless Drupal's own development cycle will bring it up with Joomla in other areas. Doubtless the competition between these two great platforms will benefit us all.

We are lucky to have such a range of world class free products available to us, and the onus on us is to pick the right one for each job, and then do as well with it as we can.

Joomla is by far my favorite CMS. I like the wide variety of templates and plugins that makes it exceptionally easy to create a very complex website with a limited amount of webmaster skill.

Joomla is an excellent CMS tool for small and medium size businesses. What it is lacking is the worklfow out of the box.

It is very easy to get up and running on LAMP or WAMP in minutes. To do the simple things you don't need much technical and programming knowledge. Strongly advise you have a look before you create your next website.

I like to use Joomla for sites because the owner of the site can maintain the site after it is completed. As part of my development service, I teach the new owner or whomever they assign how to update their site via telephone and giving them links to tutorials on the web. currently I am migrating 22 static sites to Joomla for a company in Australia. Joomla is not for everyone, but for those that need to be able to edit their site on any computer in the world with a connection "on the fly", it is perfect. Over the last year, developers have come up with a lot of "web 2.0" effects such as mootools powered modules to take Joomla sites from boring to exciting.

Does whatever you need. Community website, blogging, ecommerce, business personal websites.. and the list goes on.... Easy to configure and maintain.