InfoWorld's Bossie Awards 2012 has picked 24 open business applications for recognition. The list includes:

• Movable Type: One of the first widely used open source blogging systems
• WordPress: The single most widely used blogging platform
• Plone: An industrial-strength content management system
• Joomla: One of the world’s most popular open source content management systems
• Drupal: A highly pluggable, widely deployed CMS
• Typo3: A sophisticated CMS with features not found in WordPress
• Alfresco: Enterprise CMS plus records management and SharePoint replacement on open source Java
• Gallery: A website development and management tool
• SugarCRM: A tool for basic account, contact, opportunity, and lead management
• vTiger: A muscular fork of SugarCRM
• Magento: An open source option for online sales
• Spree: An e-commerce platform built on Ruby on Rails code
• FrontAccounting: An open source package for small-business accounting
• Feng Office: Office productivity tool strong on collaboration features
• Gnucash: A standout personal finance solution
• OpenERP: Built on a Python framework that's easy to customize and extend
• Openbravo: An ERP fork of Compiere that has excellent community support
• xTuple: A pioneering ERP solution
• OrangeHRM: Easy to use; ranges from employee apps to performance tracking
• OpenEMR: An easily customized PHP/MySQL stack packed with features for managing small medical practices
• Pentaho: A mature business intelligence product
• Bonita Open Solution: A star in the open source BPM field
• Liferay Portal: A full-on open source Web portal system with all the tools for easily creating a dynamic website
• Diaspora: A tool for building federated social networks outside the bounds of Facebook

We will be publishing the other Bossie winners over the next few weeks.

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