Not long ago, Acquia announced a new product/service called Drupal Gardens. In the announcement, Dries Buytaert gave his description of Drupal Gardens.
For those who have not heard about Acquia Gardens, this product will provide an easy on-ramp for people to experience the awesome power of Drupal without having to worry about installation, hosting and upgrading. Think of it as Wordpress.com or Ning for Drupal. Think of it as 'Drupal as a service'.
Acquia continues to slowly give additional information on what can be expect from Drupal Gardens. The latest post on the company's website includes a preview screencast of Acquia's new service.
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Drupal Gardens opportunity with Ning's free service demise
Hi Bryan - You don't cover whitelabel CMS products much, but I think Ning had gained excellent traction and absorbed a lot of Drupal's potential community audience marketshare. With the recent closure of its free service, I'm quite sure there are many community owners looking for an alternative.
It will be interesting to see if Drupal Gardens can react quickly enough to offer these folks an out - http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/16/grou-ps.... Would love to get your thoughts on it :)
Should be Drupal Commons, not Drupal Garden
Although, I'm not a fan of the term 'Commons'. Too close to Creative Commons, Flickr Commons etc naming.