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- Erickson takes charge at Acquia
- Erickson takes charge at AcquiaAcquia is not the commercial arm of DrupalAcquia is not "the commercial arm of Drupal" -- please stop using this phrase, as it is a) incorrect and b) damaging.Acquia is a commercial company that provides support and other services for Drupal software, but it is in...
- Tags: Acquia, Drupal, Erickson
- Discussion threads 2009-03-08
- How Acquia makes Drupal more valuable
- It is possible for a commercial operator to ruin a project, through greed, stupidity or incompetence. But the best open source projects in the future will all have scaled, competent commercial arms. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Drupal, Acquia, News Story, Wiki, Open Source, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Add-ons build business models
- Add-ons build business modelssad day for the open source modelIt's very interesting that Acquia would choose a closed-source closed until you pay for it approach to selling Drupal themes. I think it's a real shame for a number of reasons.I'm a huge fan of the open source model, but, what...
- Tags: Acquia, Drupal, open source, Drupal community, open source model
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- OSBC: Acquia to launch this fall "Carbon" social web publishing system based on Drupal
- Acquia is on track to launch its first commercial product this fall based on the open source social web publishing Drupal project. On the exhibit floor at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, Drupal community guide Kieran Lai said all systems are go for the...
- Tags: Web Content Management, Drupal, Web-publishing, Acquia, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Will Acquia ruin Drupal?
- Will Acquia ruin Drupal?Same model we've seen beforeI don't think Acquia will ruin Drupal by setting up corporate backing and support. It's really all about the needs of the customer. As a tech-savvy user of Drupal for many of my personal web sites such as 360matches.com, I find...
- Tags: Drupal, Acquia
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
Additional Resources
- Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint
- I'm at the Open Source Business Conference where Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America and Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM Corporation have just keynoted. This is my third OSBC, a conference primarily framed...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Budgeting Reality, Business Goal, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- The magic word driving Microsoft open source strategy
- Marketplace. It's a good word for hard times. The implication is that, while open source may be cool and wonderful, aligning with Microsoft can make you some money. As Max Bialystock said, "Money is honey." All this came...
- Tags: Strategy, Drupal, Microsoft Corp., Community Edition, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- The big question really facing newspapers
- It's no longer a question of print or online. It's what you're about online. In answering that question the choice of a Content Management System becomes critical. The capabilities of your CMS will determine what you can offer people. Its ease-of-use...
- Tags: Google Inc., Newspaper, Content Management System, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Erickson takes charge at Acquia
- Erickson estimated Drupal now runs over 400,000 Web sites, and that the next wave will include a lot of enterprises that will value paid support. Some are likely to be companies that used Vignette or Interwoven in the past. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Drupal, Erickson, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Erickson takes charge at Acquia
- Erickson estimated Drupal now runs over 400,000 Web sites, and that the next wave will include a lot of enterprises that will value paid support. Some are likely to be companies that used Vignette or Interwoven in the past. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Drupal, Erickson, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- News to know: EMC, Intel Atom, ICANN Chief, Mac event, Green
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: EMC discloses DOJ probe Heather Clancy: EMC joins SmartWay fold Sam Diaz: Intel and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Apple Macintosh, ICANN, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Sam Diaz, Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Linux, Desktops, Storage, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Can Drupal beat Wordpress?
- Can Drupal beat Wordpress?No but Movable Type CanI'm running [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/blog/]LITC[/url] with MT 4.2 on openSUSE 11.1 and mySQL, Perl, FastCGI. The key is that MT is pure Perl. Very safe code compared with PHP.Slightly off-topic, Who do you think dances better? [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/10/funny-unbelievable-mccain-vs-obama-dance-off.html]Obama, McCain, or Palin?[/url]Get out and Vote...
- Tags: Scripting languages, OPEN SOURCE, Wordpress, Drupal
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, UbuntuAmazing!I just amazes me what an army of unpaid programmers can do ;-).While I note the smileyThe 'unpaid' cliche is getting old."Acquia launched of its [i]commercially[/i] supported version""[/i]Novell-sponsored[/i] Mono project"Though I agree it's amazing about the army of unpaid Ubuntu...
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Mono, Ubuntu, Drupal, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
- October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. And over the weekend, Novell-sponsored Mono project announced the...
- Tags: .Net, Development Tools, Drupal, Linux, Mono, Office Suites, Open Source, OpenOffice, Operating Systems, Paula Rooney, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ubuntu
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC
- Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including collaboration and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools....
- Tags: OSBC, MindTouch, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Web publishing, CMS, BI most hot for open source disruption, but ESB and security are not?
- Acquia, KnowledgeTree and JasperSoft touted new open source web publishing, social software, content management and business intelligence products at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Acquia, of Andover, Mass., said it is on track this fall t ship a new social web publishing platform...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Security, JasperSoft, Web-publishing, Content Management System, KnowledgeTree, MuleSource, MuleSource 2.0 Community Edition, Open Source Security, 3D System, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Service Bus, Management, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...
- Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth sees Linux playing a big role in the cloud and in mobile computing â€" especially his own server and client software. In a brief interview with ZDNet after his OSBC panel, Shuttleworth said the Ubuntu Linux server will be...
- Tags: Desktop, Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Linux Server, Mobile, Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- News to know: Microsoft vs. Amazon; Cracking wireless LANs; iPhone; AMD
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped Surface Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB George Ou: New tool cracks most enterprise wireless LANs Forbes: Gates no longer the richest man John Morris:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, WLAN, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Web 2.0, LANs, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Web Browsers, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Internet, Networking, Sales, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Will Acquia ruin Drupal?
- Drupal is one of the most successful community-run projects out there. Will having a corporate sponsor ruin it? Dries Buytaert hopes not. He developed Drupal, and upon completing his doctoral thesis recently he's launched Acquia, a commercial version with all the bells and whistles,...
- Tags: Drupal, Venture Capital, Content Management, Business Structures, Investment, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financing Startups, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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