“Apparently, the days when a computer science graduate student
can invent some cool Web software and raise a few million dollars
to build a company around it are not over. Brand new (less than a
month old) North Andover, MA, startup Acquia announced yesterday
that it’s raised $7 million to market software and services in
support of the popular Web publishing system Drupal, invented by
Dries Buytaert, a PhD candidate at the University of Ghent in
Belgium.“Like the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, and the
MySQL database system, Drupal is a free, open-source program with a
large community of volunteer developers and users…”
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