Congrats to Acquia

On my way home from Foo Camp last summer I was lucky enough to get a ride back with Dries Buytaert and others. The entire trip home was spent discussing how and when Dries could take Drupal commercial, and the various business models that could support the Drupal development effort. Like other Open Source projects the issues are tricky and subtle but Dries seems to have solved those problems and announced today a MONSTER $7M round of funding, from among others, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures for his new firm Acquia, designed to capture to commercial value of the Drupal project.

Dries was impressive at Foo Camp and I'm excited to see what plans he has for Drupal, both in the near term and the long term.