Cloud-based provider Acquia <http://www.acquia.com>, has been selected 
as the web hosting provider for the University's implementation of the 
Drupal web content management system (CMS).


Founded by the original creator and project lead of the Drupal open 
source web publishing and collaboration platform, Acquia contributes to 
the advancement of the core technology and offers products, services and 
technical support to simplify the deployment and management of Drupal 
websites.  Learn more about Acquia's background at 
http://acquia.com/about-us.


Acquia will partner with Drupal developers, Palantir 
<http://www.palantir.net>, to provide the University with the 
appropriate products, services, and technical support 
for<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal>the University's Drupal 
implementation.


Other project updates:

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    The University implementation team is working with Palantir to
    develop user stories, as well as a strategy to migrate existing
    sites from UMContent to Drupal.

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    Drupal pilot availability is expected by this November

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    UMContent is expected to be decommissioned by approximately November
    2014


Learn more about the project athttp://www.oit.umn.edu/drupal 
<http://www.oit.umn.edu/drupal>, or join the CMS Google Group at 
http://z.umn.edu/cmsinitiative.




On behalf of the University web content management team,


John Starr - Business Analyst

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Steve Nguyen - Service Owner, Collaboration & Web Content Services

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