Hi, Paul. I was part of that deal. What I know for sure: Nodejitsu shares the same values about CouchDB that Iris Couch has. Specifically, there should be a way for anybody to try out Apache CouchDB easily. The world needs trivial CouchDB test drives.
Can Nodejitsu promise this (or any!) policy perpetually? No. It's a startup, a ship in a storm. In fact, between you and me, before the Nodejitsu opportunity came along, we were in the middle of revising the billing policy ourselves. Don't worry, it was even better. Hey, we were doing "your log file is your receipt" back before it was cool. We're over that now. :P Also note that Nodejitsu gives free accounts to open source projects, so that is a way to use Iris Couch (we supply the CouchDB in that stack) for free when it could potentially exceed the Iris Couch "retail" deal. (Only for open source though, obviously.) I am the Nodejitsu CTO. I am a CouchDB committer and sit on the project management committee. I like CouchDB not because it is RESTful, not because it uses HTTP, not because of JavaScript or map/reduce; not because it is so, so fast. I believe the replication model facilitates a fundamentally moral way to architect software, because the amount, the location, and the ownership of data has become the dominant factor in the ethics of software. In other words, it would be nice if people had more visibility and involvement with the data about themselves. You don't have to agree with me (few do). But maybe that gives the flavor of decision-making at Nodejitsu. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Paul Hirst <[email protected]> wrote: > I see that iriscouch is going to become part of nodejitsu. > > Does anyone know if the 'free if <$5' pricing model will remain? > > Paul > > ________________________________ > > Sophos Limited, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, > United Kingdom. > Company Reg No 2096520. VAT Reg No GB 991 2418 08. >
