Acquia vs Drupal

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Acquia
Based on 2 reviews.
Drupal
Based on 37 reviews.
Overview
Acquia is a software-as-a-service company co-founded by Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson to provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for open-source web content management platform Drupal. It is financed by venture capital, receiving $118.5 million in six rounds. On May 27, 2014, the company announced closing a $50M Series F funding round, bringing the total investments to $118.6 million. The cash influx will be used to build out sales and marketing, including adding more channel partners.
The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to content management systems. These include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal core installation can serve as a simple Web site, a single- or multi-user blog, an Internet forum, or a community Web site providing for user-generated content.
Sample Customers
Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Nestle Purina, SABMiller
Drupal
BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Educational Organization
19%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
Government
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
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