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Drupal Goes Commercial?

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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“When I examine the landscape of open source projects that have had a big impact on the technology industry, I’ve concluded that projects which have had the biggest impact (usually) have a well-capitalized company behind them.”

- Dries Buytaert, November 2007

According to CMSWatch, big piles of venture capital are being thrown at a Drupal-oriented startup called Acquia. Maybe you’re happy for Dries and company or maybe you don’t care.

But, as you might well have heard, there’s more to this story than meets the eye. Drupal founder Dries Buytaert (who owns the Drupal trademark) is one half of the team behind the startup, along with Jay Batson. The move will see PhD student (and new father - Congratulations!) Buytaert finally cashing in on his popular Web CMS invention.

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/drupal-goes-commercial-002064.php
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Drupal Developers Acquia Raise $7 Million

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Only a few days ago did Dries Buytaert, the Belgian developer behind Drupal, the open-source content management system, decide to launch a start-up to take parts of the effort commercial. Today, Acquia, the company formed to pusue that effort, has gathered together a $7 million first round investment. The round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners as well as Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Buytaert put Acquia together to be “a company that is to Drupal what Ubuntu or RedHat are to Linux. If we want Drupal to grow by at least a factor of 10, keeping Drupal a hobby project as it is today, and taking a regular programming job at a big Belgian bank is clearly not going to cut it.”

http://mashable.com/2007/12/19/acquia-funding/
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Drupal and Dries: A business model that works

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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CMS Report

What is the good news? Dries Buytaert, project leader for Drupal, is starting his first Drupal startup. The working name for the company is Acquia.

Does anyone else see the irony in Drupal's founder not beginning his first Drupal startup until seven years after releasing Drupal publicly? Think of all the developers, IT leaders, and companies that have prospered over the years from Drupal. In all that time, Dries has been very careful to not benefit more than others in the Drupal community. All in all, I think Dries has shown the highest respect for open source as well as loyalty to the Drupal community.

http://cmsreport.com/node/1407
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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."

Drupalcon Update

Posted on Mon, Jan 21, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott
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Drupalcon Boston 2008 preparations are reaching a fever pitch. Session slots are starting to fill, sponsors are signing up, registrations are streaming in. But we need more - lots more. So if you haven’t submitted your session, purchased your sponsorship, or paid your registration, stop reading now and get over the drupalcon.org and get it done.

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.

Getting Things Rolling

Posted on Sun, Jan 13, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott
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As Dries said over on his blog, we’re really starting to ramp things up at Acquia. Everyone except Gabor was in town last week to do some planning and we made some great progress.

Here’s a photo of everyone around the conference table.
Acquia end of day bull session

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:

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