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Anne Zelenka Checking Out Drupal & Acquia

Posted on Wed, Feb 13, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott
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I just noticed that pro blogger and technologist Anne Zelenka is checking out Drupal and Acquia.

A Dormant Drupal Opportunity?

Posted on Thu, Feb 07, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott
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Gartner, one of the leading technology industry analyst firms, published their list of the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008 back in October 2007 at their Gartner Symposium/ITXpo event. I was at the event, but somehow missed the press release. Karthikeyan over at Seeking Alpha just posted a summary that brought it to my attention.

On The Market Value of a Brand

Posted on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott
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Sandro Groganz has an interesting post where he attempts to calculate the value of the MySQL brand as a component of the acquisition price Sun paid. Here's the punch line: "As of today, a whopping 85% of MySQL’s economic value added can be attributed to its strong Open Source brand." I haven't checked Sandro's math in detail, but it's clear that brand is a huge component of the value of MySQL."

CMSWire interview

Posted on Mon, Jan 14, 2008 by Dries Buytaert
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I was interviewed by John Conroy of CMSWire. It turned out slightly more technical and visionary than previous interviews.

What a ride so far

Posted on Sun, Jan 13, 2008 by Dries Buytaert
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(The video above was shot last week when Jay and I were driving to work. Jay said 'December' but really meant 'January'.)

As you might have read on the Acquia website, Acquia is six people now. We had the fortune of being able to hire some really smart people:

Redmonk on Acquia

Posted on Tue, Jan 08, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott
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Redmonk
Michael Cote over at Redmonk just posted a writeup and analysis of our conversation about Acquia this afternoon.

First Acquia employees

Posted on Thu, Dec 20, 2007 by Dries Buytaert
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Today, we announced that Gábor Hojtsy and Kieran Lal have joined Acquia as employee one and two respectively.

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