On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Paul Brown <paulrbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > >> Or a vendor who wanted Cassandra-related traffic could post a client > >> registry backed by a simple database... > > :) > > Backing it with a database doesn't solve the evaluation problem, though. > > At the point you back it with a database, you can add a few social features > like "I'm using this" or "Like" and have a reasonable collaborative filter...
Maybe that is the best compromise then -- you would still have all the options listed but there would be a fairly strong signal when there is momentum around one in particular. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com