Jan, great to hear that. Best of luck to CouchDB Ltd. and to you all.
Bruno On Friday, March 06, 2009, at 06:34PM, "Jan Lehnardt" <[email protected]> wrote: >Dear CouchDB Community, > >Chris Anderson, Francesco Cesarini, Marcus Taylor and I are proud to >present CouchDB Ltd., a CouchDB-centered support, consulting, training >& development company. > >Why a commercial entity? I (Jan) have been doing commercial CouchDB >consulting for the last nine months and I simply can't keep up with >the demand. So I started looking for partners. First, meet Francesco >and Marcus of Erlang Training and Consulting. They are providing the >same services we will provide for CouchDB, just for Erlang. With >CouchDB written in Erlang, this couldn't be a better fit. Next up is >Chris. I don't have to tell you how much of CouchDB's success is part >of his work. He's also been working on CouchDB-related things only for >the past months. The Ltd. is simply a way of organizing our efforts >and fulfilling the enormous (really) demand for professional CouchDB >services. > >Where is the catch? — We have a hard time finding one. Chris and I >both live and breath open source and so far, all our commercial >projects have allowed us to contribute back to the CouchDB source or >related open source projects. And we will continue to do so. Instead >of a catch, we believe that this of great benefit for CouchDB and the >community. We'll have two more full-time CouchDB contributers, next to >Damien. Hooray! > >The CouchDB Ltd. website will go live at http://couchdb.com/ in the >next one or two weeks. We'll make sure that there's a link and a note >back to the official website & project on every relevant page. CouchDB >Ltd. is at it's heart an open source company, invested in the success >of CouchDB. We believe that making commercial support available will >extend the range of companies and products that are able and willing >to take a bet on a new technology. > >If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this thread or email >Chris or me directly. > >Thank you all for making CouchDB the phenomenal success it is now! > >Cheers >Jan, Chris, Francesco & Marcus >-- > > >
