Exclusive: Interview with Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert
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| Drupal project founder Dries Buytaert has had a productive year, even by his
| standards. He wrapped up his PhD, became a father, started a company (Acquia)
| with Jay Batson, and, oh yeah, continued to steer the good ship Drupal
| towards modular, multi-user Web CMS heaven.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/exclusive-interview-with-drupal-founder-dries-buytaert-002158.php
MuleSource readies open source SOA governance
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| Branching out in the SOA space, MuleSource will introduce Tuesday its Mule
| Galaxy software, an open source SOA governance platform with an integrated
| registry and repository.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/15/mulesource-galaxy_1.html
Open Source, Unified Communications Will Combine to Change VoIP Market
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| Sangoma Technologies (News - Alert) Corporation provides PC-based hardware
| and software for proprietary and open source based data and telephony
| transport solutions. The company develops and manufactures voice and data
| communication products including Advanced Flexible Telecommunications (AFT)
| PCI cards. Founded in 1984, Sangoma Technologies Corporation is publicly
| traded on the TSX Venture Exchange.
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http://opensourcepbx.tmcnet.com/topics/open-source/articles/18323-open-source-unified-communications-will-combine-change-voip.htm
http://tinyurl.com/39cxet
Open source tools: a good collaboration environment for people with Aspergers
Syndrome
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| Not only is free software development unprecedented in its size and
| geographic spread–hundreds of people from countries around the world
| collaborating on individual projects–but it brings together people who are
| notorious for having trouble dealing with other people. That’s really
| impressive when you think about it.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/open_source_tools_a_good_colla.html
RMS?
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A Big Drop in the Bucket for Drupal
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| 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.
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| 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. And Acquia’s CEO, Jay Batson, says it will
| remain so. Rather than creating and selling a proprietary version of Drupal—
| or “forking” the system, in geek speak—Acquia will work on specialized
| distributions of the software and help organizations deploy it on a larger
| scale. “We will be to Drupal what Red Hat is to Linux,” Batson says.
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http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/20/a-big-drop-in-the-bucket-for-drupal/
Drupal developer bags $7 million
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| Announcing US$7 million in first round founding from North Bridge Venture
| Partners, Sigma Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Buytaert and Jay
| Batson, former CEO and founder of Pingtel, hope to steer their Drupal spun
| startup Acquia deeper into the enterprise.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1547664640&rid=-50
Open-source tools open democracy's doors
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| According to a Vancouver Web guru, "You can't build a free and open society
| using proprietary software."
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| Nelson said Drupal started when a Belgian named Dries Buytaert was looking at
| developing an on-line bulletin-board-style system for the co-op he was living
| in, one that would enable people to exchange messages. Buytaert, then a
| university student, still maintains a Web site at buytaert.net/ and,
| according to Nelson, released the Drupal codebase under a GNU licence,
| meaning it conforms to open source.
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http://www.straight.com/article-117320/open-source-tools-open-democracys-doors
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