Dries Buytaert on the State of Drupal in 2011

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Dries recently gave a presentation regarding the state of Drupal and has just made the video of this talk available for the public. My presentation was based on the results of the State of Drupal survey, which got over 3,000 responses from people all over the world. Because I didn’t have time to talk about all [...]

Acquia adds New Cloud Apps to it’s network

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Acquia, the enterprise guide for Drupal, recently announced several significant enhancements to the Acquia Network, which provides developers and site builders an unparalleled collection of answers, tools, and support for assembling extraordinary web experiences with Drupal. The enhancements empower Acquia Network subscribers with self-guided training for Drupal concepts and best practices; site testing under a variety of [...]

Drupal Open App Standard Initiative Launched

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Two leading players have announced the Drupal Open App Standard Initiative in an effort to help create an improved user experience within the Drupal content management system and to help spur the development of the Drupal economy. Phase2 Technology, based in Alexandria, VA, and SubHub, based in Cardiff, United Kingdom, have been collaborating on the [...]

Acquia receives $15 million in series D funding

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Acquia, the commercial Drupal venture started by Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, has raised an additional $15 million in series D funding. According to a recent post by Dries on his personal blog, This is an incredibly exciting time to be at Acquia. Since the series C last November, our staff size has almost doubled, from 70 [...]

Build a Social Network easily with Drupal Commons

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Have you ever wanted to build a social network of your own but have shied away from custom scripts and commercial products with poor support? Now’s your chance to do so with Drupal Commons. Powered by the powerful open source CMS, Drupal, Commons is an excellent way to build an engaging social network or community. [...]

Not for profit sites that promote Drupal adoption and usage can get free Acquia Hosting

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Acquia has announced that they will provide the free Acquia Hosting. According to the post by Dries on his website: Today, we are happy to announce that we’ll start to provide free Acquia Hosting accounts to not for profit sites that promote Drupal adoption and usage. For example, DrupalCamp websites and local Drupal user group [...]

Acquia introduces new hosting capabilities with Acquia Hosting

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Acquia has announced the immediate availability of their Acquia Hosting platform which provides optimized cloud-based hosting that is specifically tailored to Drupal. From the Acquia website: Single vendor for complete Drupal infrastructure support Acquia is your one-stop shop for maintenance and support for your entire Drupal infrastructure. We’ll keep your Drupal and LAMP stack secure, [...]

Acquia Drupal Review

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With all of the buzz encircling Acquia lately, we thought it prudent to share a review with our readers since we’ve never truly delved in to see what Acquia’s rendition of Drupal is made of. To get started, we decided to test the Acquia Drupal Installer stack which is available from the Acquia website and [...]

Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert Interview

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We were very pleased to have a chance to interview Dries Buytaert, founder of the legendary Drupal content management system. He shares his thoughts on its success, future and how it came to be in this intriguing and indepth discussion. We had so many questions, that we are only publishing part one while he works [...]