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Acquia Unveils Roadmap to Commercially Supported Drupal

***Leading open source social publishing system gears up for enterprise use***

**Boston, MA — Drupalcon — March 3, 2008** — Today Acquia provided new details on plans to deliver a commercially supported distribution and value-added network services based on the wildly popular Drupal open source social publishing system. The company also threw open the doors on Acquia Projects, a collaborative environment for Drupal community members to participate in the direction of forthcoming Acquia products and services.

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Acquia Names Former Adobe & Macromedia Executive Jeff Whatcott as VP of Marketing

Industry veteran brings decade of experience building strong software businesses

**North Andover, MA, January 7, 2008** — Acquia, Inc. today announced that Jeff Whatcott has joined the company as vice president of marketing, responsible for all marketing activity. Whatcott joins Acquia from Adobe Systems, where he led marketing for the LiveCycle™ business process platform and the open source Flex™ rich Internet application development framework.

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Acquia Receives $7 Million Series A Financing

Drupal open source collaboration and publishing platform secures commercial backing

**North Andover, MA, December 19, 2007** — Acquia, Inc. today announced it has secured $7 million in a Series A financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners, with additional investment from Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The company plans to use the capital to create value-added software and network services around the popular Drupal open source web collaboration and publishing platform. Company founders are Dries Buytaert, original creator of Drupal, and Jay Batson, previously founding CEO of open source VOIP software company Pingtel.

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