Long ago were the days where we used to evangelize about open source and its virtues versus proprietary software. Open source solutions have proven their worth as a flexible, powerful tool that grants people and businesses the freedom to build their way. I spoke about many of these advantages last October 2019 at my Open Source talk in Extremadura Digital. Open source has won the credibility battle, but the war we face now is the challenge of making it sustainable:…

If you’re currently on Drupal 8, you can expect a similar experience with Drupal 9 when it is released later this year in June. As Dries has said, “The big deal about Drupal 9 is...that it shouldn’t be a big deal.”  Drupal 9 will ship with all of the features of Drupal 8 that the community has been updating and adding to since 2015. There will be a few changes, primarily with system requirements and third-party dependencies, in order to ensure platform security:…

When Drupal and Acquia news starts piling up, it's time for a Scan. Starting this week with... Drupal 9, which you may recall is scheduled to drop on June 3rd, 2020. In a recent What's New post on drupal.org, we are all reminded that "many contributed or even custom modules only need a one-line change to be ready for Drupal 9." Another reminder: there are community created tools to check the status of your modules: the upgrade status module, or the Drupal Check …

MJ Johnson, Acquia's Senior Director of Product Marketing, has just published a blog post that captures all the product developments that took place in Q4, 2019. Click here to read his entire post.  Here are the highlights:  New Relic Pro, the leading application performance management solution, is now available to all Acquia Cloud customers. SumoLogic has partnered with Acquia to deliver custom dashboards that allow developers and IT operators to utilize custom…