Drupal’s founder and lead, Dries Buytaert, has formed a company to supply Drupal services and raised $7m for the effort! In addition to the usual consulting and support services, he plans to develop pay versions of Drupal. Read his announcement and Acquia FAQ for more data. On the one hand, that makes me nervous. Dries’ hopes for Acquia to become the “next Red Hat” is not

necessarily great for those of us who anticipate using the free version indefinitely. On the other hand, it may be wonderful to see Drupal develop into a more robust, mature system with greater adoption and known legitimacy. We could definitely ride that wave.

additionally of interest: Buytaert’s site of Drupal sites — some big names here.

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