BURLINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - Nov 7, 2011) - Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced "Acquia U" -- a program to employ and train recent and upcoming college graduates, as well as career changers, in Drupal. Due to the remarkable growth in adoption of the open source social publishing platform, there is incredible market demand for qualified Drupal developers and designers.
Forbes discusses Drupal as a powerful force in the tech world and Acquia's commercial support of Drupal through subscription services for learning and productivity tools, cloud hosting, social business software, and more.
Legacy CMS vendors, like OpenText/Vignette and Autonomy/Interwoven, are experiencing the effects of a disruption of their marketplace. As a result, many organizations are flocking to open source. CMS Wire says that "Acquia seems to understand the current trend to push this out of the hands and heads of the overburdened IT operations shops and into the cloud at large."
eBay's new business, X.commerce, migrates its X.com developer website and all related content on eBay and PayPal from a proprietary platform to Drupal7, an open-source content management system (CMS).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - (Marketwire - Oct 12, 2011) - Innovate Developer Conference - Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced that eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) new business, X.commerce, an open commerce ecosystem, has migrated its X.com developer website and all developer-related content on eBay and PayPal from a proprietary platform to Drupal 7, an open-source cont