Thanks Andy, I was wondering when someone was going to bring up Couchbase on this thread instead of villifying us!
We hold no reluctance to mentioning CouchDB at all. We just stop short of saying Cloudant = hosted CouchDB We're happy to continue to fund awareness raising via the community and IBM (and on our own). We're a bit focused on the process of getting integrated into IBM at the moment. Hopefully we'll be able to come up for air soon and contribute more on the CouchDB marketing front. We can spare money easier than we can spare people right now, if you've got ideas or need funding for marketing ideas (e.g., Lena's weekly reports), don't hesitate to ask.. Andy Ellicott VP Marketing Cloudant.com, an IBM company 200 State Street Boston, MA 02109 (m) +1 603 205 2804 From: Andy Wenk <[email protected]> To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> Cc: Noah Slater <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "TheApacheFoundation ." <[email protected]> Date: 06/12/2014 11:21 AM Subject: Re: Cloudant and CouchDB branding Noah and Sally, thanks for bringing this up. Yes it's frustrating. And let's not forget about the existing confusion with Couchbase also. CouchDB is one of the first NoSQL databases and still a plain open source project. Noah you have often stated, that as a community existing out of volunteers, we don't have the power Couchbase or MongDB Inc has regarding marketing activities. I remember the email sent by Adam K. who asked, what IBM could do to help Apache CouchDB. There we have one point: marketing and press presence. Even though Lena is already doing a great awesome job, we need a bigger lever to not sink among the other NoSQL databases. Thanks a lot for all your help. It's highly appreciated. Please let me know what I can do to help ... Cheers Andy On 12 June 2014 17:11, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Noah. I hear you. Believe me. > > I'm working with another PMC right now on finding a way to help TLPs with > this issue. > > Just so you know, CouchDB is high on my awareness list. I actually pitched > you guys to a reporter yesterday who had similar Cloudant/CouchDB confusion. > > Furthermore, the ASF Board is aware of the need and is in support of our > finding a solution. > > Bear with us, but don't remain silent. > > -Sally > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Noah Slater <[email protected]> > *To:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Cc:* TheApacheFoundation . <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, 12 June 2014, 11:08 > *Subject:* Cloudant and CouchDB branding > > Hello marketing folks, > > Check out this list of 15 NoSQL databases to watch, posted by the > Cloudant Twitter account: > > > http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/big-data-analytics/16-nosql-newsql-databases-to-watch/d/d-id/1269559?image_number=1 > > It actually took me several minutes to spot that Cloudant was in that > list. I had a draft tweet reply asking why it wasn't mentioned before > I spotted it. > > The logo is about 66% the IBM logo, then 33% the Cloudant logo. Which > is a bit weird, if you ask me. But there you go. That's Cloudant's > issue, not ours. > > What I do take issue with is that in a list of 15 top NoSQL databases, > CouchDB doesn't get a mention, but a company that packages up > (admittedly, a fork of, at this point) CouchDB does. And it is > Cloudant's name that gets press. > > We have: > > - MongoDB > - Riak > - Apache HBase > - Cassandra > - Cloudant > > One of those is not like the others. Anyone else see the problem with this? > > What can we do about it? > > The author of the article posted this tweet about it: > > https://twitter.com/DHenschen/status/477089827981377536 > > I replied with two tweets: > > > @DHenschen thanks for the coverage of Cloudant, a CouchDB provider! Just > wondering why you don’t mention CouchDB specifically? > > https://twitter.com/nslater/status/477104465976512512 > > > @DHenschen I imagine that if you were covering Hadoop, you’d mention > Hadoop specifically, and not Cloudera or Hortonworks. > > https://twitter.com/nslater/status/477104509513396224 > > I spoke to Jan about this before sending. Jan mentions that this is > probably the result of Cloudant having a strong PR/AR game. > > We don't engage PR/AR at all. I'm wondering what we can do to change > this. Because this article (while cool for Cloudant) makes me very > sad. > > Sally, is there anything you can do to help us avoid this sort of > situation in the future? I brand has really taken a beating in recent > years, and stuff like this really does not help us at all. > > Thanks, > > -- > 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
