Acquia, an open source software company providing products and services for the Drupal social publishing system, has provided new details on plans to deliver a commercially supported distribution and value-added network services based on the Drupal open source social publishing system. The company also threw open the doors on Acquia Projects, a collaborative environment for Drupal community members to participate in the direction of forthcoming Acquia products and services. Acquia plans to ship a commercially supported distribution of Drupal, code-named "Carbon." The Carbon distribution will include the Drupal 6 core release and extension modules for assembling social publishing sites and applications.
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