You can’t read any technology publications, go to any tech events, or read a business journal these days without hearing a common theme; SaaS and the Cloud are The Future. For those in the know, the idea of having the infinite scalability of cloud resources, of not having to patch or maintain software, and knowing that they can get started more quickly or spin down resources at will is incredibly alluring. The promise is clear: it’s about Freedom.

We get this. Freedom has always been at the heart of Acquia and Drupal. The early days of open source were about the promise of “Free as in Beer”, but it stuck around and dominates the technology landscape because it’s also “Free as in Freedom”. Open source is not just free to download and use, but it’s also free to modify, to extend, and to share. We believe that Open Source, SaaS, and the Cloud are a perfect trinity -- releasing us all from the old slavery of giant license fees, of tremendous investments in data centers and “bare metal”, and the mind-numbing task of maintaining hundreds of applications when your priorities should be elsewhere.