Another Milestone for Acquia, the start-up company founded by Drupal's Dries Buytaert.  I've been reviewing the Acquia products for a couple months and will post my thoughts on it at a later date.

After months of hard work, Acquia is now open for business! Starting today, everyone can connect their Drupal 6 site to the Acquia Network to take advantage of our services. Oh my! Complete Story

Webmonkey: "Webmonkey sat down with Dries and Jay to talk about the history of Drupal, where development is headed and the role their new company will play in the project’s future."

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"In the last year, a growing number of companies based on free and open source software (FOSS) have come out of stealth mode. One of the latest is Acquia, which provides services for organizations that use Drupal, the popular content management platform. "Until now," says Jeff Whatcott, Acquia's vice president of marketing, "there hasn't been a Red Hat or Ubuntu of the Drupal world." Acquia plans to fill that gap by selling subscription services that will improve what Whatcott calls the "few rough edges and gaps" in Drupal, at the same time that the company establishes itself in the eyes of community."

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Open Source Community was the first place I saw mentioning an error in a post at Mashable.com regarding Drupal 6. OSC's article is Mashable Blunders, Cleans it up, and Moves on!

I was just looking through my Google Alerts and noticed some uninformed blogger was running with these headlines today: Acquia Releases Drupal Version Six and the article contained this line: "Drupal is the content management system maker most recently in the news last December for raising $7 million."

Normally, I would ignore such nonsense since I have come to terms
with the fact that there is nothing more freely available on the
Internet than pure ignorance.

The Mashable.com post in question has since been corrected to the headline of Drupal Version Six Released and give credit back to Drupal.org. As you read in the comments, Acquia's Jeff Whatcott was also quick to make sure credit went to Drupal.org and not Acquia. It's not in anybody's interest for any one company to take full credit of an open source community driven product and most observers of Drupal are aware that Acquia has placed a lot of effort in assuring the community that's not what they're about.