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Acquia Shows Drupal Gardens: A Hosted Version of the Drupal CMS

Acquia, which provides commercial support for and its own distribution of the Drupal content management system (CMS), today gave attendees at Drupalcon Paris 2009 a first look at Drupal Gardens. The project had been previously code-named Acquia Gardens, and is the company's upcoming software-as-a-service version of Drupal designed to speed the design and deployment of Drupal social publishing sites for non-technical users including small business owners and web designers. It looks like it could help extend Drupal out to many new users who might shy away from installing and learning Drupal from the ground up, and help Drupal compete with hosted publishing platforms.


8 Resources for the Mighty Drupal Content Management System

Undoubtedly, the open source project Drupal is one of the most robust content management systems (CMS) around. It provides the infrastructure and manages processes for many well-known web sites, including The Onion, Fast Company, InfoWorld and OStatic. We've had a great experience with it, and many large media companies are migrating to it and saving money. In our interview with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, he described the core contributors to the project as on the same scale as the Linux kernel. There are also over 2,000 modules for Drupal, making it hugely extensible.

Since OStatic's inception, we've collected many good resources for both getting started with Drupal, and extending its functionality if you already use it. Here is our latest update to that ongoing collection--eight great resources, including interviews with Drupal insiders.



Acquia, Supporting the Drupal CMS, Adds 200 New Customers

We've reported?a number of times before?on Acquia, which offers a commercially supported version of the open source Drupal?content management system. OStatic runs on Drupal, and Drupal version 6 is expected to soon run over 240,000 web sites,? with many large media companies switching to it.

In a post just yesterday,?we discussed the proven business model of support and services for open source software that Red Hat has built, and how Acquia, Cloudera, Eucalyptus Systems, and other commercial open source companies are pursuing the same model. Until now, though, even though the company has gotten healthy venture capital funding, it hasn't been easy to tell how privately held Acquia is doing. Here are some new details.



Acquia Gets $8 Million in Second Round Financing

We've written about Acquia a number of times. Co-founded by Dries Buytaert, the founder of the Drupal content management system (which OStatic is based on), Acquia provides commercial support and services for Drupal. Now, the company has received an $8 million second round of venture financing from two of three of its existing investors, according to regulatory documents posted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. With Drupal growing like wildfire, and becoming especially popular with publishers seeking more economical content management, Acquia's total of $15 million of venture funding has it well positioned for growth.


Acquia, Which Provides Commercial Drupal Support, Delivers Search

We've covered Acquia, which delivers commercial support for the powerful Drupal content management system a number of times. Acquia also delivers its own distribution of Drupal, and the company's co-founder (and also founder of Drupal) Dries Buytaert has now announced that the company has come out of beta testing with its version of Acquia Search. It's available at no cost as part of every Acquia Network subscription. If you're looking for a free, open source tool to run a web site, and need solid search and inexpensive support, the one-two punch that Drupal and Acquia offer may be just right for you.?


Screencast Illustrates Useful Open Source Search Running with Drupal CMS

Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system and co-founder of Acquia, which provides commercial support and services for Drupal, has an interesting screencast posted on his blog. It illustrates some of the services that Acquia provides for sites that run Drupal, (as OStatic does), and features the company's Bryan House demonstrating search functionality for use with Drupal, based on Apache Solr. If you're running Drupal or are interested in running it, the screencast is worth watching.


Drupal 6 Content Management System To Soon Run 240,000 Sites

Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system, and co-founder of Acquia (which offers a commercially supported version of Drupal), is out with some remarkable statistics, here, and here. If you're unfamiliar with Drupal, it is a powerful open source content management system, and OStatic runs on it, as do many other sites, including Fast Company and The Onion. According to the latest data from Dries, based on the growth of the platform, there will be over 240,000 sites running on Drupal 6 by January of 2010, and that's up from fewer than 5,000 in July of 2008. Here are some more milestones for Drupal.


Newspapers Going Online-Only Should Look at FOSS Content Management

Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet has an interesting piece up called The big question really facing newspapers. As many newspapers are moving to online-only presences, because of a severe print advertising market, publishers and editors are having to rethink the whole newspaper business model. Blankenhorn suggests that many papers would be wise to consider open source content management systems for their online efforts. He specifically cites Drupal, which OStatic is based on, and Acquia, which provides a commercially supported version of Drupal. Here's why open source content management makes a lot of sense for the papers, and other publishers.


Acquia Gets New CEO, Extends Drupal Searches, and More

Acquia, which offers a commercially supported version of the open source Drupal content management system is out with a series of announcements today. The company has a new CEO, Tom Erickson, who was formerly CEO of Systinet, which he sold to Mercury Interactive. Acquia has also announced a public beta of Acquia Search, a hosted service, as well as cloud-based Drupal hosting, and Drupal stack installers for Windows and the Mac.


Martin Schneider, of SugarCRM, On the Open Cloud

One of the big topics to be discussed at the upcoming Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), ?March 24th and 25th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, will be the future of open source. In preparation, OStatic is running a series of guest posts on this theme, featuring thought leaders from top open source projects. Last week, we checked in with Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system, and co-founder of Acquia. This week, Martin Schneider, director of product marketing for SugarCRM, weighs in on the open cloud, and how SaaS, open source and dynamic platforms are converging. Here are his thoughts.


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