Acquia Coverage

Avec une communauté de plus de 630 000 développeurs, dont plus de 16 000 en France, Drupal est l'un des leaders du marché du CMS (outil de gestion et de publication de contenus) et a su développer un modèle économique articulé autour de l'open source. C'est la société Acquia, fondée en 2007 et comptant 200 salariés à travers le monde, qui propose ses diverses solutions en ciblant principalement les entreprises. En France, Acquia est dirigée par Cyril Reinard et compte parmi ses clients la SNCF ou LaPoste. Aujourd'hui Drupal serait utilisé sur 1,5 million de sites web dont plus de 11 000 en France.

De passage à Paris, Dries Buytaert, le créateur de Drupal, a accepté de répondre à nos questions.

Comment se positionne Drupal sur le marché mondial des CMS ?

Dries Buytaert : Il existe des centaines de CMS. Aujourd'hui un site sur cinquante utilise Drupal. C'est l'un des CMS les plus importants et seul Wordpress possède une part de marché plus élevée. Drupal se placerait donc en seconde position. En revanche nous ne sommes pas vraiment en concurrence avec Wordpress. Typiquement Wordpress est pensé pour les sites plus petits et nous nous focalisons sur les sites plus complexes.

Today everything has an API. Facebook has hundreds of APIs across such social areas as friends, photos, likes and events. Google has thousands of APIs across search/AdWords, Web analytics, YouTube, maps, email and many more. Amazon has APIs that cover the spectrum from Alexa Web traffic rankings to e-commerce product and pricing information and even the ability to start and stop individual machines. I spent a decade architecting and building component and services based software, and another decade after that evaluating and investing in infrastructure software, I believe this mobile and cloud influenced wave of RESTful service-oriented software may finally live up to its initial promise.

Although the majority of API attention has centered on consumer Web services, an emerging cadre of startups are focused on infrastructure and business processes. These newcomers are providing a broad range of critical services neatly packaged as frameworks or APIs. Some of these companies, such as Salesforce and Google Maps, are next generation SaaS providers that have built solutions to serve both end users and developers. Others, including Mailchimp and Twilio, are pure play offerings that solely target developers as customers.

Web optimization provider Yottaa announced on Tuesday that it has closed $9 million in Series B funding. The round of funding will be used towards accelerating the delivery of its services that optimize, protect and monitor websites for SMBs, and other organizations.

Existing Yottaa investors, General Catalyst Partners, Stata Venture Partners and Cambridge West Ventures participated in the round, and were joined by an additional undisclosed investor.

This funding round comes a week after Yottaa launched its solution for mobile acceleration, combining its patented front-end optimization service with a global content delivery network. Its mobile acceleration solution currently has more than 30 million users, according to the press release.

Web hosts that are looking for a solution that combines site speed optimization, mobile optimization and a CDN may consider partnering with Yottaa. The referral or reseller program could be a fit for web hosts that want to deliver faster websites to their customers. HostMySite ad Acquia are existing Yottaa partners.

Acquia, a provider of commercial solutions for Drupal, has announced the appointment of industry veterans Thomas Bogan and Paul Sallaberry to its Board of Directors.

Few global organizations can match the size, scale and importance of NYSE Euronext. (NYX). The leading global operator of financial markets, NYSE Euronext's markets represent fully one third of the entire world's equities trading-and the company is a major player in derivatives and technology services. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index and Fortune 500.

With all of that of course goes tremendous responsibility for systems integrity and security. That is why it might surprise some to find out that NYSE Euronext has chosen the open source Drupal CMS platform for its forward facing web infrastructure. NYSE also chose Acquia, a leading consulting company with an expertise in Drupal to help his team with the site development.

Acquia is only three years old and focuses almost exclusively on open source platform Drupal, which makes its earning a spot on Forbes list of 100 most promising companies in 2011 a pretty impressive feat. Despite the company’s showing, Acquia is not yet a well-recognized name in enterprise circles. The appointment of two new board members may just change that.

Watch below to learn all about Veteran Central, the first online community for veterans and their advocates to share experiences, employment opportunities, and more... Powered by Drupal and hosted by Acquia.

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