Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing at Acquia, Inc, will give a presentation about Drupal

Enterprise content managers are always under pressure to increase functionality and decrease costs when implementing a content management sytem (CMS). Several open source alternative are available to replace or enhance the current selection of commercial CMS packages. One of the leading open source CMS options today is Drupal.

Come hear Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing at Acquia, Inc, discuss his views on overall trends in the content management market, specifically in Drupal as a social publishing system.

Jeff is a proven thought leader in platform technology strategy and a passionate advocate of the open source development model and community-centered marketing. He is a frequent public speaker and panelist on key topics including rich Internet applications, business process management, and social publishing. Jeff leads all marketing activity for Acquia.

Acquia's founders are Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead of the Drupal open source web content management system, and Jay Batson, previously founder and CEO of Pingtel. Acquia plans to accelerate and extend market adoption of Drupal by advancing the core technology and offering value-added software products and network services that dramatically speed deployment and reduce risk.

After Jeff’s talk, time will be allotted for interested parties to quickly present their efforts in the development, support, deployment or maintenance of Drupal and its associated modules.

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