Thanks for the note, Adam, and congratulations.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:29 AM, 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 > >
