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 mercredi, le 22 août 2012, 09h35 EDT
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
Plus... Posted on jeudi, le 26 mai 2011, 12h04 EDT
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
Plus... Posted on Sunday, le 23 janvier 2011, 11h21 EST
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
Plus... Posted on jeudi, le 9 decembre 2010, 22h27 EST
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
Plus... Posted on lundi, le 25 octobre 2010, 16h44 EDT
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
Plus... Posted on vendredi, le 8 octobre 2010, 15h19 EDT
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
Plus... Posted on vendredi, le 6 août 2010, 13h09 EDT
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
Plus... Posted on mercredi, le 4 août 2010, 15h01 EDT
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
Plus... Posted on mercredi, le 19 mai 2010, 13h34 EDT
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
Plus... Posted on jeudi, le 18 mars 2010, 18h19 EDT
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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