Jay Batson
VP, Co-founder
Acquia, Inc.
Acquia is the second technology company Jay has founded, and is also his second commercial open-source effort (the previous having been Pingtel, acquired by Nortel). Jay's passion is to build great companies that build products that make users happy. So at Acquia, he searches out new products and service opportunities the company can offer its customers to make Drupal more valuable to those who use it.
Jay is also a cycling fanatic - both riding, and being a fan of the Pro Tour. He earned his JD from University of Denver.
Recent blog posts
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 09:35
In recent years, a new breed of incubators called seed accelerators have had success helping new companies get started. They provide mentoring, connections, and capital. Depending on the accelerator, even the branding from having been accepted into
More... Posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 12:04
This morning is an exciting moment: Drupal Commons version 1.6 is released! This release brings some really exciting new advancements:
Two new themes. (Yay!)
Usability improvements
A collection of smaller, yet important feature advances
Let me
More... Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 11:21
The first few months of Drupal Commons business for Acquia has been great. We've seen tens of thousands of downloads of the distribution, live sites starting to appear all over the world, and enterprise deployments get underway. With all this
More... Posted on Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 22:27
How do I love Drupal Commons? Let me count the ways.
Ok, so maybe this is just me being enthusiastic about a great day at work. But ok - that's what blog posts are, right? Personal expressions of what's happening?
Today I spent a bit over 1/2 day
More... Posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 - 16:44
A few of days ago I blogged about a conversation I had with an industry analyst. A key quote I heard from him that conversation was this: "The feature set for social business software is now pretty well known." And again today I heard from another
More... Posted on Friday, October 8, 2010 - 15:19
Ok, so yes - the title is a bit misleading in one sense; but in another it's totally true. Let me explain.
While briefing an industry analyst yesterday, I realized that the analyst was presuming that an organization needed to have adopted Drupal in
More... Posted on Friday, August 6, 2010 - 13:09
I continually marvel at how much better the open source world works than the old proprietary software software world.
Yesterday I encountered an amazingly good illustration. I was discussing Drupal Commons with a team from a large, household-name
More... Posted on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 15:01
Today is a fun day for me: We’re releasing Drupal Commons as a 1.0 release. Woo hoo! Time - once again - for open source to go blow the doors off another proprietary software cathedral.
Drupal Commons is Acquia’s project to create an open source
More... Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 13:34
At the start of DrupalCon San Francisco, we let folks know that we were working on a new Drupal Distribution called Drupal Commons. As a reminder, Drupal Commons is integrating groups, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, documents, and events into a
More... Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 18:19
Lately we've heard from a growing number of enterprises looking to build community sites. These companies are asking:
Can I build a community site with Drupal?
How does Drupal compare to other options?
What modules should I use?
Are there examples
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