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The editors at Ziff Davis Enterprise invite you to join Geoffrey Bock, Senior Analyst for The Gilbane Group; Jason Hibbets, Project Manager in Brand Communications + Design for Red Hat; and Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing for Acquia, in a conversation about how social publishing is disrupting the Web Content Management (WCM) and social software markets.

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Date & time: Thursday, February 18, 2010
1:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Geoffrey Bock, Senior Analyst for The Gilbane Group; Jason Hibbets, Project Manager in Brand Communications + Design for Red Hat and Bryan House, Senior Director Marketing, Acquia
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Acquia Podcast 14: Dries Buytaert, Managing growth of an Open Source project

In this podcast, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager, talks with Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead for Drupal, and co-founder of Acquia, about the creation and development of the open source content management project. They also discuss how the project was conceived, why it has grown and where its going.

Acquia - 2009 in Review

Posted on January 5, 2010 - 11:17 by Thomas Erickson.
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I was so proud of what our team accomplished in 2009 that I wrote a couple of different versions of our accomplishments. I posted one last week. However, after thinking about it some more, I was so excited by specific achievements, that I decided to post this version as well, which lists many of them.

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Open Source, Automotive Manufacturing & Obscurity

Posted on December 15, 2009 - 00:00 by Thomas Erickson.
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I’m very puzzled by the recent blog by Brian Prentice of Gartner. Comparing just-in-time manufacturing to open source software? Perhaps Brian is thinking of open source components like Apache Tomcat, which is often nestled inside of proprietary software solutions.

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VP Services

Founded by the Drupal creator, Acquia offers enterprise-class consulting, support, hosting, website administration and soon a SaaS version of Drupal hosted in the cloud. Our rocket growth has led to the need for senior leader to head up our consulting and support businesses.

Beyond Social Business Software

Posted on October 29, 2009 - 17:32 by Thomas Erickson.
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Acquia issued a press release today contrasting Social Publishing platforms represented by Drupal and the growing number of Social Business Software products. At first glance it would seem that we don’t like those products, but that’s not the case. The products have some nice capabilities and many organizations are using them daily.

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Building a business selling open-source software

Published on Aug 11, 2009 in The Open Road (CNET)

While TechDirt experiments with optimal configurations of digital media business models, Rob Walling has unwittingly landed on a sure-fire way to build billion-dollar open-source companies.

I say "unwittingly" because Walling's post is all about "How to Compete Against Open Source Competition." In the process, he does a fair job of describing how to build an exceptional open-source business.

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Mix and match: The perfect open-source Web commerce company

Published on Jul 30, 2009 in The Open Road

Occasionally I get brilliant ideas about whom should merge with whom in open source. OK, so it's very occasionally, but I think I'll start sharing them under a "Mix and match" headline.

Forget Fantasy Football. It's time for "Fantasy Open Source."

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Start-up built on free software

Published on May 26, 2009 in Boston Globe

When cofounder Jay Batson was putting together his start-up Acquia last year, he figured one advantage would help it stand out from all the other companies that manage Web content for business clients.

The software was free.

"Free is very disruptive," Batson said. "In a fragmented market, 'free' commands a lot of attention."

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Future of Open Source 2009 Survey results

Posted on March 24, 2009 - 13:28 by Bryan House.
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The results of North Bridge Venture Partners 2009 Future of Open Source survey were released today at the Infoworld Open Source Business Conference. Michael Skok led a panel discussion on the topic with Dries Buytaert from Acquia, Ron Hovsepian from Novell, John Lilly from Mozilla, Martin Mickos from Sun, and John Roberts from SugarCRM.

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