@FIRST_LIGHT

About a year ago I sat down with Michael Cote of RedMonk to record a vodcast about the open sourcing of the Flex SDK. After we discussed the news, we explored the internal decision-making process at Adobe (scrub to about the halfway mark in the video). In that discussion, I said the following about the challenges of gathering the right information to make the open source decision:

We recently completed our press and analyst tour introducing Acquia to the world.

It was really fun to introduce these key influencers to Drupal and to Acquia. Reaction was very positive. Coverage is linked here.

Gartner, one of the leading technology industry analyst firms, published their list of the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008 back in October 2007 at their Gartner Symposium/ITXpo event. I was at the event, but somehow missed the press release. Karthikeyan over at Seeking Alpha just posted a summary that brought it to my attention.