How to Choose Between Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress

 Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of activity in blogs and Twitter about Joomla vs Drupal vs Wordpress. This seemed to start with a Slashdot article and then the usual respective groups launching diatribes about how their CMS was best and the others were the spawn of the devil. OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but perhaps not far off. Those comment flame wars can get pretty testy. Then we saw couple more posts, occasionally with some clear misconceptions included.

At the same time there has been an "Iron Chef" type showdown between some top respective developers to build a site powered by X that meets a specific specification.

With all this activity about comparing these three open source web publishing scripts, I thought I would provide people with a really really easy decision matrix so you can figure out which one you need to use.