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
>>
>



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