I'd like to thank Dries and the Acquia management team for their generous contribution today. Dries blogged that they have allocated one full time engineer (Katherine Senzee) to work on Drupal 7 critical issues. Phew. The volunteer fire department that has been slaving away on Drupal 7 criticals was getting exhausted. We really need this.

If we think back to the Drupal 6 release, Acquia contributed the same thing by paying Gabor to work on criticals until the release was ready. Apparently, this is what it takes now in order to get core Drupal out the door.

Acquia has shown a real talent over the past three years in aligning their business goals with those of Drupal. Off the top of my head, they also have:

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