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Drupal, Acquia, and 2009
Posted 01 Jan 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Blogs, Business Model, Community, Content Management, Drupal, Enterprise applications, Open Source, Platform, Social Networking

Looks like 2009 will be yet another exciting year of growth for the Drupal community. Dries Buytaert (Drupal project founder and lead, Acquia co-founder) announced two significant news items for the Drupal world in his recent "Predictions for 2009" blog post: a predicted release date for Drupal 7, and a major change in Acquia's support offering. Read more ...

Drupal Scalability
Posted 23 Dec 2008 by Chris Fuller | Tags: Drupal

As a consultant specializing in enterprise Drupal, I often find myself answering a relatively small (and consistent) set of questions about the Drupal platform early on in any engagement. Many of the larger Drupal sites are media and publishing oriented, which makes these questions even more common across projects. As a result, I've started to compile a list of most common Drupal questions and the answers I've been able to provide. First up is the most common concern enterprises have about Drupal - scalability. Read more ...

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source Read more ...

Acquia Drupal officially launches
Posted 03 Oct 2008 by Jeff Potts | Tags: Acquia, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Portal

Do you love Drupal but wish you could get a "certified" version and commercial support? Now you can. Acquia, the commercial company recently formed by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson, officially launched Acquia Drupal this week (press release). Acquia Drupal is a commercially-supported distribution of Drupal. Read more ...

Reviewing the Groundswell
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Groundswell, Marketing, media, Online Advertising, Open Source, Social Networking, User Experience, Web 2.0

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, published by Harvard Business Press (note: disclaimers at the end of the post). Read more ...

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Architecture, Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Read more ...

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. Read more ...

Content Management in the Age of User Participation - Presentation
Posted 20 Jun 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Alfresco, Amateur, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, content syndication, Culture, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Media and Publishing, Next Generation CRM, Open, Open Source, Social Networking, Syndication, User Experience, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, WordPress

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called "Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton" - you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   Read more ...

Drupal-Alfresco Integration and Alfresco's Move to the Front-End
Posted 23 May 2008 by Jeff Potts | Tags: Alfresco, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0

Via Dries Buytaert, Rob Purdie is announcing the relaunch of Amnesty International's site. The new site was built using Drupal and Alfresco. Read more ...

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass
Posted 06 May 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, User Experience, Web 2.0

At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am. Here's the session description: Read more ...

Open Source CMS - does the world need yet another one of these??
Posted 07 Apr 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Content Management, content syndication, Drupal, ECM, Open Source, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widget, WordPress

Content Management is a very poplular category in the open source ecosystem. There are more than 2’000 open source technologies out there to handle, manage and distribute content. So why would we need any of the 200 new ones published over the last six months? Read more ...

Acquia to provide vertical solutions, commercial Drupal support
Posted 14 Jan 2008 by Jeff Potts | Tags: Content Management, Drupal

In this CMSWire interview with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert we get a glimpse at what Dries’ new company, Acquia, is all about. "Acquia will provide added value to Drupal users by reducing risk and saving them time. Users who are cautious about deploying Drupal will have the option to purchase a commercial subscription from Acquia to help them maintain and monitor their Drupal website." Read more ...

Online Community with Radio
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Drupal, Music, Radio

In creating :Vocalo, the folks at Chicago Public Radio weren't just trying to create a new website for a radio station. They were trying to create an entirely new experience, which would enable an online community and help CPR reconnect with a geographic community which was underserved.  As Torey Malatia put it, in this article in the Current: Read more ...

Not Just an Online Radio
Posted 27 Dec 2007 by Marc Osofsky | Tags: Drupal, Radio, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Radio stations first leveraged the internet to break down the physical barriers of radio signals and allow listeners to enjoy the content around the globe.  Until very recently, that has been largely the extent of radio station innovation with the internet. Read more ...

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