Acquia, a Massachussetts-based startup, is announcing a supported product using Drupal, the open-source content management system behind many community aspects on the web, from sites such as Fast Company to The Onion.
Itβs a rite of passage for an open-source project to get its very own shepherd that provides a measure of support beyond the forums and masses of independent programmers who churn out the code. For Drupal, the move is akin to Red Hat offering support for Linux and Sun taking MySQL under its wing for $1 billion.
Acquia's co-founder Dries Buytaert also founded Drupal; it scored $7 million back in December to build its 12-person team to this point. Jeff Whatcott, the VP of marketing for Acquia, says the company wants to continue to contribute to the Drupal code base and has no plans to create a proprietary form of code for enterprise use.
Acquia has readied some modules targeted at specific enterprise markets and will sell subscriptions to Acquiaβs Drupal add-ons as well as services that support new and existing Drupal deployments. The Acquia-supported Drupal product is called Carbon, and will be ready in the second half of this year. An automatic update service for Carbon called Spokes will be available then as well.
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Add CommentDrupal rocks. And now, with a some good money, and a very active community, this should make for some cool new enhancements. Go Dries!
"open-source programming language" ... since when Drupal became a language?
By on Mar. 04, 2008
I agree with justinkadmia. The home page says:
"This blog features a team of writers who have been using and writing about open source tools for years."
And then we are made to believe that Drupal is a programming language?
By on Mar. 04, 2008
DRUPAL is a platform. please correct.
By on Mar. 04, 2008
And the funny thing is that ostatic.com is built using DRUPAL.
http://ostatic.com/node/add/project
By on Mar. 04, 2008
This site just goes to show the power and the versatility of Drupal. With the money they've raised you can expect to see significant progress along with many more startups and businesses using drupal as the foundation for their online offering.
As for the "programming language" faux pas, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, launching a new site is always tricky...
OOps, sorry guys. An older version of the post went up. I have fixed the problem. THanks for catching the mistake and apologies all around.
By on Mar. 04, 2008
This site really doesn't understand open source and doesn't do its homework.
Dries wasn't hired by Acquia - he founded Acquia.
Readers should check out:www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3731476/Open+Source+Drupal+Goes+Commercial+With+Acquia.htm
For a real publications take on this.
By on Mar. 04, 2008
Hah - I guess the PR company and the original writers on GO were not in sync on this one! The error exists on the original post too:
http://gigaom.com/2008/03/03/acquia-dresses-up-drupal-for-corporate-user...
By on Mar. 04, 2008
Reuven seems to know what he's talking about - I mean, anyone who used emacs 20 years ago is cool in my books. Though, vim is wa-a-a-a-y cooler ;)
Yes, OStatic is based on Drupal. We will do a post in the future on how we optimized this site based on building blocks from Drupal. Stay tuned.
Sam
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