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Drupal Founder Earns $7 Million in VC Funding

Drupal's founder Dries Buytaert has launched a new company called Acquia that has picked up $7 million in venture capital funding. (Apparentl the new name is meant to refer to "aqua" and Drupal's original meaning of "drop of water").

What Will the New Company Do? In short their aim is to:
"build a company that develops a number of Drupal distributions and that offers electronic services that make Drupal easier to use and manage."

The longer version is that they have four goals:

"First, to increase the number of people using Drupal by a factor of at least 10, if not more, in the next several years.
Second, to invest focused attention on the software to make sure it fulfills its potential.
Third, to build a company that respects the community, the Drupal way of doing things, and that (at the same time) can be a big commercial success.
And finally, to build products and services that lots and lots of Drupal users will want - in order to build a successful company. We can only continue to do more and more for Drupal if we're making money. If we build stuff you want, we'll grow, which will help us invest more in Drupal. We hope it becomes a virtuous cycle."

In practical terms, the company will do things such as open a Drupal technical assistance center and build its own equivalent of Red Hat’s Linux network, which the older company uses for jobs like distributing automatic updates and upgrades.

*Full News : Alledia

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