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Acquia is only three years old and focuses almost exclusively on open source platform Drupal, which makes its earning a spot on Forbes list of 100 most promising companies in 2011 a pretty impressive feat. Despite the company’s showing, Acquia is not yet a well-recognized name in enterprise circles. The appointment of two new board members may just change that.

Normally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month, keeping you up to date with the open source CMS and other related projects that might interest you. Like last year, we're taking a look back at 2011 and into 2012 for some extra insights into what's to come.

Forbes released its list of America's 100 most promising companies, which includes familiar names such as HubSpot, Box, Acquia and Domo.

When I saw the headline of the Forrester article proclaiming the death of the enterprise CMS suite, I couldn't help but both be pleased with myself, and feel a little sorry for the analysts. After all, I scooped them and proclaimed the exact same thing a little more than three weeks before.

Acquia, the commercial open source software company, announces the launch of Acquia U, a program to train and place Drupal developers and designers.

Welcome to the September 2011 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

IT Magazine KMWorld takes its annual peek at those making waves in the world of knowledge management and other tech areas, with this year's beneficiaries including iAPPS and Acquia Network.

Just in time for DrupalCon London 2011, Acquia, provider of Drupal Web CMS services, has announced the release of several new components to its Acquia Network offering. The general theme is helping developers manage and scale their Drupal-powered websites more easily. The package consists of a new dashboard, site-testing tools, training modules and more.

Acquia (news, site), provider of Drupal services and support has announced that it is introducing two new Drupal service offerings and that it has acquired two companies.

Acquia (news, site), provider of Drupal support and value-added services, just received an influx of cash -- US$ 15 million to be exact -- to support its efforts to grow and accelerate international expansion.

Welcome to the June 2011 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

While Drupal is considered to be a flexible web CMS, businesses might find it challenging to quickly set up their community sites while customizing their software and tacking on add-ons for better functionality. Acquia (news, site), which provides commercial Drupal support, promises to address this with the version 2.0 launch of Drupal Commons, which enables businesses to build community sites faster with its "social-as-a-service" setup.

Acquia (news, site) -- providers of commercial support and hosting for the Drupal Web CMS, and Ruby on Rails platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Engine Yard (news, site) have announced a partnership to offer a managed cloud-based solution for Ruby on Rails (RoR). The partnership should allow developers who use the popular Drupal web content management system and RoR to create solutions more quickly.

Acquia (news, site) has released a new version of its social software platform, Drupal Commons. Drupal Commons, based on the open source web content management system Drupal, provides users social tools to help better engage customers. Is release 1.6 an improvement? Yep, it's kind of a big deal.