On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear CouchDB community (again), > > Thank you for the thought-provoking feedback about our > commercial services announcement. We're glad so many > people are happy to hear that CouchDB is getting commercial > support. A number of people expressed concern about using > the couchdb.com web address and doing business under the > CouchDB name. > > We're pleased to announce couch.io, offering CouchDB support, > training, hosting and development. > > For more information see http://couch.io/ or email Chris or me > directly. > > -- > > For those who missed the original announcement: > > 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. couch.io is > simply a way of organizing our efforts and fulfilling the enormous > (really) demand for professional CouchDB services. > > > Cheers (again)! > > Jan, Chris, Francesco & Marcus > -- > http://couch.io/ > > > On 8 Mar 2009, at 17:41, Chris Anderson wrote: > > Devs, >> >> I've felt the fair-competition argument a little on my own, so hearing >> it from other quarters gives it even greater weight. We're discussing >> ways to proceed that take into account the full community, including >> competitors (of which we hope to have many!) >> >> Thanks for the perspective, everyone. We'll have more to announce in >> the next few days. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris >> >> >> -- >> Chris Anderson >> http://jchris.mfdz.com >> >> > Awesome name, guys! I didn't realize there was an .io t, but that's even slicker than using the couchdb.com domain. Congrats again, and best of luck... Dean
