Former Micro Focus exec joins Acquia as CEO
Michael Sullivan has joined Boston-based tech company Acquia as the company’s chief executive officer.
Michael Sullivan has joined Boston-based tech company Acquia as the company’s chief executive officer.
It's a product that actually costs nothing, is up against entrenched competitors, and exists in a category that enterprises have in the past been wary of. All in all, marketing open source to marketers was probably never going to be an easy job.
Drupal's project lead, Dries Buytaert, earlier this month outlined the criteria for a beta release of the next version of the open source CMS: Drupal 8. D8 hit alpha in mid-2013.
When Drupal creator Dries Buytaert addressed the inaugural DrupalCon Sydney conference earlier this year he said the open source project's community had to move beyond seeing it purely as a content-management system. Drupal can compete with the proprietary Web experience management solutions provided by companies like Adobe and Sitecore, Buytaert said.
A passion for PHP, as well as a strong developer community, has been vital to Drupal’s success, founder Dries Buytaert said.