That's pretty cool, I guess :) Congratulations!
On 02/24/2014 03:29 PM, Adam Kocoloski 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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