couch.io comes back? wouldn't it cause creation yet another couchbase? or what should ensure people in that? -- ,,,^..^,,,
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Heya Marketingers, > > one of the things I keep noticing in the field is that people and companies > decide against using CouchDB because there are no professional services or > support offerings. > > My main objective is showing that CouchDB is a viable solution and that > commercial services are being catered to. > > Of course there is Cloudant, but there are enough scenarios where that’s not > an option. > > Also of course, there are a number of people and companies that offer > services for CouchDB, e.g. Benoit. > > I think it’d be a great boost for the project if the main website (or > sub-page) would have a direct pointer to the various offerings that exist so > end users get a feel for how good they can be taken care of, if needed. > > Say we all agree that it’s a good idea*, there are a few open questions: > - who decides which offerings get listed? > - what would be a rule or guideline for refusing an entry? > - how do we deal with offers that turn out not to be so good after all? > - how can we avoid a “first come first serve” rush to offer something first? > - etc. > > *If* we are going anywhere, I think we should look at other Apache projects > and other open source projects and come up with guidelines that answer the > above questions (and the ones you come up with :) > > > *- If we don’t agree that’s a good idea, that’s also fine, I just wanted to > get a discussion around this going :) > > What do you think? > > Best > Jan > -- > >
