Acquia Overview
Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites. Diverse organizations use Drupal as their core social publishing system for external facing websites and...More»
Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites. Diverse organizations use Drupal as their core social publishing system for external facing websites and internal collaboration applications.
As a member of the global Drupal community, Acquia helps accelerate Drupal usage by contributing to the advancement of the core technology and offering products, services and technical support to simplify the deployment and management of Drupal websites.«Less
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Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 12/2007 | Series A | 7M | Unknown | |
| 07/2009 | Series B | 8M | Unknown |
Products
| Name: | Acquia Drupal |
| Product URL: | http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-drupal |
| Date Launched: | 12/2007 |
| Description: | Acquia Drupal is a packaged distribution of the open source Drupal social publishing system. A collection of essential software from the Drupal community, Acquia Drupal provides a quick on-ramp to begin building Drupal websites. Acquia Drupal simplifies the development of social publishing applications - interactive, community-based publishing websites that feature both editorial and user-generated content. Whether building a public facing website or an intranet application, the goal is to engage visitors and encourage participation. Acquia Drupal allows you to mix and match proven social publishing patterns to turn site visitors into active contributors, including: |
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User Opinions
Bulls vs. Bears (11)
| Bullish Opinions (8) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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Drupal is still going strong, bright future for this CMS and acquia |
solphusion 09/20/2009 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Drupal is great and has a huge potential |
solphusion 07/13/2008 |
100% 5 votes 5 0% 0 |
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Seems to have good early traction. |
drapaport 04/28/2008 |
100% 2 votes 2 0% 0 |
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Drupal is powerful but not easy, any company that can aid in that arena will get great uptake |
dknight 04/28/2008 |
50% 2 votes 1 50% 1 |
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Buytaert seems like he is constantly looking to innovate. |
yoda 04/22/2008 |
100% 6 votes 6 0% 0 |
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these guys are really going to take off |
sgeorge 04/18/2008 |
80% 5 votes 4 20% 1 |
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Acquia co-founder Buytaert is the project lead of Drupal |
blogger 04/12/2008 |
100% 9 votes 9 0% 0 |
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Drupal is gaining in popularity |
blogger 04/12/2008 |
100% 12 votes 12 0% 0 |
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| Bearish Opinions (3) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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Their product is not available yet |
anyal 04/28/2008 |
33% 3 votes 1 67% 2 |
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BRUTAL compared to free competitor WordPress; resource hog w/ a huge server footprint. BOOO! |
bullcrapper 04/24/2008 |
25% 4 votes 1 75% 3 |
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It's still too early to say whether Drupal services will have a significant market |
blogger 04/12/2008 |
42% 12 votes 5 58% 7 |
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