Acquia

What Features Are Essential for Small Business and Nonprofit Organization Websites

Recently Acquia solicited some feedback from us about what kind of features we though would be useful to small businesses for their upcoming product, code named "Acquia Gardens". While we typically only work with small businesses with a social mission, we often do hear from businesses looking for web development work.

WebEnabled Launches Rapid Development Platform Including Drupal Provisioning

WebEnabled is a Free and Open Source (FOSS) hosted platform that "makes it easy for teams to focus on building awesome web applications." Provisioning applications from their library is fast. Bevan reported getting a Drupal 7 instance up and running in a few minutes. The service offers full SSH, SCP and SFTP access. You can also manage your code revisions and collaborate with others using SVN.

Redmonk's Analysis of Acquia (Reblogged)

From Jeff Whatcott's post 6 days ago:

"Michael Cote over at Redmonk just posted a writeup and analysis of our conversation about Acquia this afternoon.

"I always enjoy talking to the Redmonk guys. They listen actively and push back in real time if needed. I always leave the conversation with more than I brought into it and I always know where they stand (no surprises). If only all analyst conversations followed that same pattern…"

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