Jan, Congratulations to you all.
We've being using CouchDB in our app since 2009 and I'm expecting good things happening from this merge. []'s Marcos On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear CouchDB folks, developers, users, > > I don't usually post business-y things here, but I think this one warrants an > email. > > I'm excited to announce that CouchOne, the company Damien, J Chris and I > founded in late 2009, is merging with the company Membase to become > Couchbase. Together we will be developing a product, also called Couchbase, > that is based on CouchDB and Membase / memcached technology. Our goal is to > build a simple, fast and elastic database that's gonna kick some ass. I'll > leave the details of that for you to read on the websites we've put up — > start here: http://www.couchbase.com/ > > Instead of dwelling on the merger or technology, I'd like to address likely > questions about the relationship between Couchbase and Apache CouchDB. It is > simple, really: at CouchOne we were 100% committed on the Open Source side of > things and at Couchbase we will continue to do so at the same degree. In > terms of organisation, Couchbase will be it's own independent Open Source > project that has Apache CouchDB and memcached as dependencies, but adds a > few things of its own that warrant being its own project. Our combined > engineering team, led by Damien, will continue to contribute to Apache > CouchDB in the same way as we've been to date, only more. I can't wait to > share with you what we'll come up with :) > > Thanks everybody for your support, past and future. The CouchDB community is > by far my favourite and I hope you will accept Couchbase as a new member of > this community :) > > If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me privately, but I'd > like to avoid highjacking the list for this thread. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > http://couchbase.com/ > > >
