Dear CouchDB community (again), Thank you for the thought-provoking feedback about our commercial services announcement. We're glad so many people are happy to hear that CouchDB is getting commercial support. A number of people expressed concern about using the couchdb.com web address and doing business under the CouchDB name.
We're pleased to announce couch.io, offering CouchDB support, training, hosting and development. For more information see http://couch.io/ or email Chris or me directly. -- For those who missed the original announcement: Why a commercial entity? I (Jan) have been doing commercial CouchDB consulting for the last nine months and I simply can't keep up with the demand. So I started looking for partners. First, meet Francesco and Marcus of Erlang Training and Consulting. They are providing the same services we will provide for CouchDB, just for Erlang. With CouchDB written in Erlang, this couldn't be a better fit. Next up is Chris. I don't have to tell you how much of CouchDB's success is part of his work. He's also been working on CouchDB-related things only for the past months. couch.io is simply a way of organizing our efforts and fulfilling the enormous (really) demand for professional CouchDB services. Cheers (again)! Jan, Chris, Francesco & Marcus -- http://couch.io/ On 8 Mar 2009, at 17:41, Chris Anderson wrote:
Devs, I've felt the fair-competition argument a little on my own, so hearing it from other quarters gives it even greater weight. We're discussing ways to proceed that take into account the full community, including competitors (of which we hope to have many!) Thanks for the perspective, everyone. We'll have more to announce in the next few days. Cheers, Chris -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
