Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Hosted Drupal CMS intended for midyear

Acquia hopes to make a hosted description of its Drupal open-source content management system extensively available in about three months, the company's CTO said Wednesday.

The service, called Drupal Garden, is in beta testing now with a "couple of thousand" users, said Dries Buytaert, who created Drupal and cofounded Acquia to build a commercial business around it. The service will be based on Drupal 7, an upgrade to the CMS software that will be released at about the same time, Buytaert said at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Drupal is a software platform for publishing Web sites and managing text, images and other content on those sites. It has been used by folks to publish blogs and by larger organizations, including the White House and NASA, to run their Web sites.

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