congratulations Adam and all at Cloudant and thanks for the great contributions to CouchDB :)
On 24 February 2014 15:39, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
