“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
I learned about Acquia in early 2008, at the Open Source Think Tank, sipping some wine and talking about how to appropriate returns from the commons with its co-founder, Jay Batson. At that time Acquia’s business strategy was still in its infancy, and it is interesting to look at how it has evolved with time.
To learn more about their business strategy when Acquia launched their social business software Commons 2.0 I posed few questions to Bryan House, VP marketing at Acquia.
Last week Packt has announced that Drupal has won both the best open source PHP CMS Category and the Hall of Fame new category. Having been one of the judges for the first category, I wish to share some thoughts about my number 1, 2 and 3.
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Packt - the publishing company specialized in books on software running yearly the open source CMS award - published “Flash with Drupal“, another book on Drupal.
Travis Tidwell - author of the book, creator of the Dash Media Player of and founder of TMT Digital - shows how to work with hybrid Flash-Drupal architecture, introducing readers to create Flash applications from scratch.
The book is a step by step guide, readers need some understanding of ActionScript and PHP, as for Flash no knowledge is required. See Delicioso website to have an idea of what he can do with Flash and Drupal.
Packt - the publishing company specialized in books on software that have developed vibrant online communities - published ”Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions”, yet another book on the 2008 Open Source CMS Award Winner.
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Packt - the publishing company specialized in books on software that have developed vibrant online communities - just published ”Drupal for Education and E-Learning”, yet another book on the 2008 Open Source CMS Award Winner.
The ”Drupal for Education and E-Learning” book was written by Bill Fitzgerald of FunnyMonkey, a company that recently launched a platform aimed at helping schools to share commons. The book was reviewed by Joel “Senpai” Farris, COO at WorkHabit, Michael Peacock, founder of a consultancy specialised in web design, and Peter Wolanin, Drupal core developer now employed by Acquia.
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