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"Acquia\u00A0has announced the availability of Acquia Drupal, a\u00A0free and commercially supported distribution of the popular Drupal\u00A0open source social publishing system. They also unveiled the Acquia Network, which offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services that simplify the development and operation of Drupal Web sites. Entry level subscriptions to the Acquia Network will be free of charge through the end of the year.\n\nFor those that aren't overly familiar with Drupal, it's an open source web development and content management platform that\u00A0publishes, manages and organizes a wide variety of content on websites. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal.\nWith the release of Acquia Drupal with its streamlined packaging of Drupal and a support system via the Acquia Network, there will definitely be a tremendous increase in Drupal developers and websites powered by this Drupal.\n\nAll subscribers to the Acquia Network will gain access to the Acquia Network's subscriber forums, remote network services such as software update notifications, uptime monitoring, Mollom spam blocking, and Acquia Drupal documentation.\nWhat all this means is that many more companies, especially enterprise class entities, will be much more willing to dip their toes in the Drupal pool now that there's a commercial grade package available that includes tech support. If all this sounds familiar, you're probably thinking about Linux and how similar its path has been to the corporate world. At one point, only extreme geeks used Linux, until some big names like IBM and Novell started proving technical support plans with their Linux offerings. That allowed larger companies to try Linux much the same way they will try Drupal thanks to the Acquia partnership and support offering.\nIt seems like the natural evolutionary progression for all open source projects to go from a handful of geek's using it in their basement to the corporate enterprise once a commercial package with tech support is distributed. It will be interesting to see what kind of websites and social networks are born from this marriage between Acquia and Drupal."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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