Seconded. Congratulations. This is great news. I look forward to the future...
On 24 February 2014 15:35, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Adam and everyone at Cloudant: congratulations for your hard work! > > I'm thrilled about what this could mean for the future! > > Jan > -- > > > On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:29 , Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Apache CouchDB means a great deal to me, and to Cloudant as a company. >> Cloudant and CouchDB have grown alongside each other over the past several >> years in one of the more authentic vendor/community collaborations I can >> think of in Apache history. Today marks the next step in Cloudant's growth >> as we enter into a definitive agreement to become part of IBM. >> >> What does this mean for CouchDB? I would not have agreed to this transaction >> if I had any concerns about Cloudant's ability to continue its contributions >> and collaboration with Apache CouchDB. IBM has a strong track record in open >> source software and a productive relationship with Apache; in fact, IBM was >> instrumental in bringing CouchDB to the ASF many years ago. IBM is fully >> supportive of our efforts here, and I'm looking forward to bringing >> increased resources to bear in support of the project. >> >> CouchDB has the potential to shape the future of distributed data management >> and computing. 2013 was a year of tremendous progress, as we doubled our >> committer base and shipped no fewer than eight releases. Already in 2014 >> we've seen amazing progress on long-standing initiatives to enhance the core >> of the system. The timing is right -- in the market and for the community -- >> to take the next big step forward. With your help, that is exactly what we >> will do. >> >> Truly, the future of CouchDB is CouchDB. >> >> Adam Kocoloski >> Co-Founder & CTO, Cloudant >> > -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
