Acquia News & Articles

WoodWing Software (news, site) has a list of clients that reads like an international Who’s Who of the print industry. Acquia (news, site) is the commercial arm that offers products and support for the open source software web content management system Drupal (news, site).

Last week, the two companies announced a new partnership that will see WoodWing's Enterprise 6 Content Publishing Platform ship with Acquia Drupal as the default content management system.

The result is an integrated package that gives publishers a tool that is simple to use as well as the ability to adopt print content for web users who are looking for interactive and engaging online experiences.

The Drupal (news, site) team has a lofty goal, one shared by many content management system projects and vendors: to make their CMS the simplest to use. To that end, Leisa Reichelt and Mark Boulton of Mark Boulton Design have been tasked by Dries Buytaert to repeat their successful Drupal.org redesign for Drupal itself.

Funded by Acquia, Reichelt and Boulton are heavily engaging the community for this process. And that's where you come in.

With Tom Erickson, the new CEO at the helm, great things are expected of Acquia (news, site). One of these is undoubtedly the success of Acquia Gardens. Tagged by Acquia as "Drupal for everyone" it is a web-based, mass-market approach to the open source social web content management system.

Unveiled on the company's 2009 roadmap, Acquia Gardens' aim is to let anyone build a Drupal website via the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, with software and an IT infrastructure provided by Acquia. Though there's not much information available about the company's plans, but we scratched around a bit to see what we could find.

For Drupal newbies, Christmas has come early. Acquia released the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer nicknamed the DAMP (Drupal + Apache + MySQL + PHP) stack.

With this package, you can download one item, double click and install all of the necessary components to get the Drupal Web CMS up and running.

With DrupalCon well under way now, we are hearing a lot of announcements about new services and upcoming features and functionality for the web content management solution. One very interesting announcement is the official beta release of the new Acquia Search to the public.

A hosted search service for Drupal 6 websites, Acquia Search offers a number of advanced features that will help make your website hum with activity.

Acquia, the subscription based service and software company behind the popular open source web content management system Drupal, has made some new announcements that mean a change in management and exciting new things for the future of Acquia and Drupal.

Xerox, in partnership with two other companies, has released new paperless solutions that will streamline paper handling in the legal profession. One new product will import hardcopy legal case files into digital folders with Xerox DocuShare. As a result, workflows surrounding court proceedings will be more efficient and eco-friendly.

The DocuShare system generates a preset collection of DocuShare folders to store critical information. Then, the software system notifies users of the court network when a new case is in the system. This new system from Xerox and WaterWare Internet Services alleviates the need to keep and store hard copy documents and expedites the process to produce legal documents under short notice.

Another new solution is Xerox DocuShare's integration with CaseHomePage, a product from partner ExtraAccess Service, Inc. With CaseHomepage, law offices can create an Internet site that houses pertinent legal documents in an organized manner. Attorneys, with the new system, can send files securely and affordably via the web, eliminating the need to use couriers or secure mail.

Xerox is working hard to streamline the day-to-day operation of law offices by alleviating a major headache: paper based filing and management. Does your organization have any experience with Xerox's DocuShare? Has the product been as useful as your organization originally hoped?

It’s a new year, a time of global change and a great time to head to Germany for a Drupal invasion. You won’t want to miss DrupalCamp Cologne (aka Koln) or Drupal Ubercart training. It’s history in the making for Drupal.

We have been keeping our eyes on the browser wars for quite some time here at CMSWire. While the battle has been heating up on desktop platforms, the new and cool thing is mobile browsing.

Mozilla has been lagging behind in the mobile arena, but that may have changed with Mozilla’s latest mobile browser — Fennec. Fennec enables the very things that made Firefox so popular: extensions. The first extension has been released and things are moving quick.

After much waiting and anticipation from the open source content management world, Acquia has officially released Acquia Drupal, a free and commercially supported distribution of the Drupal Web CMS platform that marks the company’s first major move since its inception.

Unfortunately, in the process, Acquia might end up confusing the new and existing Drupalers more than intended. The Drupal community might consider this as a negative move — as Acquia, a commercial entity, has associated itself with Drupal, an open source project, a fair bit too much.

CMSWire talked with Bryan House, Acquia’s product marketing director, to get more insight into this release.

Acquia, the commercialization entity that resulted from the Drupal project, has finally released a private beta of Carbon — its commercial Drupal distribution. They’ve only been talking about the project since the end of April.

Loopfuse and Acquia have announced the availability of the Loopfuse Integration module for Drupal. The module links Drupal installations to the commercial Loopfuse OneView automated marketing product. The module, funded by Acquia and Loopfuse, was developed to connect the Acquia website to OneView, and has been donated to the Drupal community and is available to download at Drupal.org (link below.)

Acquia presented at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston last week, and Jeff Whatcott, who manned the Acquia stand, writes in a blog entry that most of the corporate types swinging past his booth had no idea what Drupal was.

Acquia’s mission, or course, is about changing all that, and making the open source Social Publishing (… as they insist on calling it…) platform a viable Enterprise content management/community product. If you remember, the company told us at Drupalcon Boston in March how they intend to achieve that. The first step consists of professional wrapping of the Drupal product, and will come in the shape of the subscription-based ‘Carbon’ product. Carbon consists of Drupal 6.x core and about 30 modules, some of which have been developed by the Drupal community and then vetted and tested by Acquia, with a sprinkling of modules developed by the company itself. The result is calculated to be analogous to a Red Hat enterprise subscription; a cast-iron, bug-free and supported version of a community-built product.

Acquia, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert’s new company, took to the stage last Thursday at the Launch Pad session at the web 2.0 Expo in SF. Although they didn’t win the people’s choice for best startup (this honor went to Triggit), their soon to be released Carbon and Spokes programs are still plenty enticing.

Not only does Dries Buytaert get selected as one the top young tech entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek, but one of his newest ventures — Acquia, has been chosen to launch their company at the Launch Pad - Venture Capital Edition during the web2.0 expo today in San Francisco.