When Dries (co)started his company he made sure not to step on any of the those of the community and the commercial ecosystem around Drupal. Dries stated he wanted to play it nice and offer commercial services around Drupal that would be good for Drupal, for the community, the Drupal companies that already offer (implementation/testing/education) services as well as for his investors and himself. The last two I wrote down myself but it only makes sense to add them as well

Dries stated in his initial post that Acquia should be:

[...] a company that is to Drupal what Ubuntu or RedHat are to Linux.

So far, Dries and his team at Acquia have done a great job! Adding value to the code, the community and even generating opportunities for other Drupal Shops without claiming any ground where others are offering service. Acquia created their own business opportunities, something we all profit from.

One year and 2 weeks after the initial announcement (late congrats!), Acquia is more then the Ubuntu/RedHat of Drupal! Acquia is the Acquia of Drupal. And you can see this if others are referring to you like:

just as Red Hat does for the open-source Linux operating system and [...] Acquia does for the open-source Drupal content management system.

And lets not forget, is is more then anything else a compliment to the Drupal community, becomming a household name like Linux is (in some households anyway )

Now if only we would be more proud on our mascot.