As I am not a contributing developer, but working on commercial use of CouchDB, so my only reason for being on this list is to look out for things like what just happened with Damien; look out for the risk that the CouchDB project stagnates in what Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya calls the 'good enough' or the 'Early Adopter' stage.
The fact that Damien will concentrate on a commercial product is good news to me. When Adam responds by offering BigCouch to the community, thats great news too! Cloudant has created a stable and reliable service for commercial CouchDB work, and nothing would be better than if Iriscouch would follow up with an equally sophisticated commercial hosting service based on Couchbase. Without the services that take CouchDB to users on the other side of the "chasm" (I assume it is not only Mahesh that know his Jeffrey More here) the risk is that CouchDB will never make it to the big market. TECHNICALLY the critical part is that the Rest API stays stable and backward compatible and that databases can be replicated across the various implementations. COMMERCIALLY it is critical that players like Couchbase, Iriscouch and Coudant succeed and are followed by business minded competitors as soon as possible. As for the promises for an updated WEB SITE for CouchDB, I hope the efforts will be directed towards the developers at the other side of the chasm, those not so Github savvy, but closer to paying end customers. The future lies in proving CouchDB's value to more of those. Johs / www.linkedin.com/in/ensby On 6. jan. 2012, at 23:13, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Yes, I saw and whole-heartedly approve ;) > > On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Adam Kocoloski wrote: > >> Hi Jim, I did my best to offer a competing narrative over at >> http://blog.cloudant.com/the-future-of-couchdb/. Cheers, >> >> Adam On 8. jan. 2012, at 17:25, Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya wrote: > Part of the issue w/ couchDB in the recent past is that it got good enough, > and that was, well, good enough for a lot of people (I offer myself up as > candidate A). > To put this in Marketing-Speak, in the Technology Adoption Lifecycle, we got > to the 'Early Adopter' stage, but never managed to quite make it across the > chasm to the 'Early Majority' stage.
