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Last month, we announced the launch of Enterprise Drupal Gardens, our OpenSaaS site factory platform.

Warner Music Group has signed up to use a new open source platform for its artist websites.

Acquia’s ‘Enterprise Drupal Gardens’ has been created to allow firms to centrally create and manage large numbers of content-rich, social websites.

The platform, dubbed ‘OpenSaas’, allows clients to access and build their websites through a common web browser – without being ‘locked in’ to a proprietary ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) model.

A wide range of artists websites are already on the platform, including Cody Simpson, T.I., B.o.B, Portugal. The Man, Stevie Nicks, Iron & Wine, Surfer Blood, JaneDear girls and Gloriana.

Acquia Inc. has launched a new enterprise platform for companies to create and manage content-rich social websites and signed on Warner Music Group as its first enterprise customer.

Burlington-based Acquia today announced that it has created an enterprise version of its Drupal Gardens platform, a service that will enable customers to use Acquia’s website hosting, development and security services through a Web browser.

Similar to software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, Drupal’s service is an open content management system which means customers will not have to install any software or manage any servers.

Warner Music Group (WMG) will use Acquia’s enterprise version of Drupal, according to the company. The list of artists’ websites already on the platform include: The Man, Stevie Nicks, Iron & Wine, Surfer Blood, JaneDear girls and Gloriana.

Acquia CEO Tom Erickson said in a statement that “the platform is a “great example of how we are helping enterprises dramatically reduce operational hurdles and costs.” Drupal has seen huge growth since its creator, Acquia co-founder and Dries Buytaert open-sourced Drupal in 2001. The platform now powers more than a million websites and has a community of 775,000 developers and users in 228 countries, according to the company.

Acquia raised $15 million of a $20 million fundraise in July 2011 just months before moving from its location in Worburn to its new digs at 25 Corporate Dr. in Burlington.

Warner Music Group uses ‘OpenSaas’ platform to apply new level of flexibility and innovation to artists’ websites

The Marketing Blog interviews Dries Buytaert, Drupal creator and Acquia Co-Founder/CTO, all about open source, Drupal Gardens, careers in Drupal, and future plans for Acquia.