OStatic

We've reported before on Acquia's effort to deliver a commercially supported version of the popular Drupal content management system (CMS). As of Tuesday morning, Acquia Drupal--the commercially supported version--and Acquia Network--which offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services--are live. Acquia has also announced that entry-level subscriptions to the Acquia Network will be free of charge through the end of the year, so that people can try the services. Here are details, and some comments we got from Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia.

Recently, we did a post on the book Pro Drupal Development, in which we offered the first chapter and contents of the book to everyone as a PDF file. OStatic is based on Drupal-- an extremely powerful, modular open source content management system (CMS) also used by sites such as Fast Company and The Onion. Backed by its own foundation, Drupal is challenging top proprietary CMS packages. We found some time with Pro Drupal Development's author John VanDyk, and he gave us some good insights into Drupal and his book, here below the fold.

Are you interested in the Drupal open source content management system, or are you a Drupal developer? If so, OStatic is proud to announce that we're offering the first chapter of John K. VanDyk's newly updated book Pro Drupal Development, published by Apress, and out now. The book is an exhaustive guide to how to build powerful customized web sites. We like what we see in the first chapter (OStatic is built on Drupal), there is a complete Table of Contents with the first chapter, and you probably will like what you see too. Please find the link here after the jump.