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Day One of Drupalcon DC

Brenda Boggs's picture

Acquia OfficeFirst official day of Drupalcon DC! Before coming here from sunny San Diego, I stopped for two days in Massachusetts to visit the Acquia offices and work with the support team.

Kicking off Drupalcon with APIs

Joshua Brauer's picture

Drupalcon is off to a great start. Yesterday afternoon and this morning we met all kinds of great Drupal folks while passing out the free Acquia t-shirts and sharing the news about several recent releases. If you haven't had the chance to check out the new Acquia Drupal Stack Installers. The installers bring a Windows and Mac OS X installer to the desktop that install and setup all of the components necessary (Apache, MySQL, PHP and Acquia Drupal) to get started running a Drupal site.

Acquia Launches Acquia Search, Drupal Cloud-Based Hosting, and Drupal Stack Installers for Windows and Mac

Expanded Offerings Build On Strong Customer and Partner Momentum

ANDOVER, MA – March 4, 2009 – Acquia today announced the public beta release of Acquia Search, as well as the immediate availability of cloud-based Drupal hosting and Drupal Stack Installers for Windows and Mac. Acquia also announced it has surpassed 45 customers and 50 partners, demonstrating the company’s strong momentum in the market since it launched Acquia Drupal, the Acquia Network, and the Acquia Partner Program last autumn.

Acquia Appoints New CEO as Management Team Grows

Tom Erickson Appointed as Acquia’s CEO and Warren Utt Joins as Vice President of Sales

Andover, MA — March 4, 2009 — Acquia, the fast growing company offering commercial support for the Drupal social publishing system, today announced the appointment of Tom Erickson as chief executive officer, as well as the addition of Warren Utt as vice president of sales. Both executives will help to further build Acquia as a leader in the social publishing space and will continue to expand the use of Drupal globally.

Come talk to us at Drupalcon

Linea Rowe's picture

Dries' Acquia 2009 roadmap describes our plans for the year. We have a lot of great ideas -- and we have just as many questions and need your input to make sure we build products you want to use. As Product Manager, my mission at Drupalcon is to talk to as many of you as possible and hear what you like and don't like about Acquia Drupal, Acquia Network, and get your thoughts on Acquia Search and other new products. Here are some ways to find us at Drupalcon:

What's your view on the Future of Open Source?

Bryan House's picture

In what has become an annual tradition at the Open Source Business Conference, Michael Skok of North Bridge Venture Partners will host a keynote panel discussion on the Future of Open Source.

SEO best practices webinar

Anonymous's picture

We recently launched free live webinars on acquia.com. Accessible by anyone, these live interactive webinars are typically scheduled on Thursdays at 1pm ET/10am PT/6pm GMT. This Thursday I have invited Ben Finklea from Volacci to present on SEO Best Practices for your Drupal Site.

Supporting Customers, Not Just Modules

Kent Gale's picture

Dries recently blogged about our recent change to “support everything Drupal 6” and I’d like to expand on the details a bit. It’s one of many changes we’re likely to make as we learn how to shape our offerings to better serve the Drupal end-user and consulting communities.

Making Module Installation Easy for Acquia Search

Jacob Singh's picture

Jeff Noyes (our Simplicity Guru), Linea Rowe, Peter Wolanin and myself sat down to discuss how the install process for our Hosted Search Service would look (yes, we’re getting close – Private Beta is out in two weeks)! Typically, when you have a faceted search engine, there is a set of filters on the left and search results on the right, with the sorting links generally horizontally aligned somewhere near the search box.

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