<story><title>IBM to Acquire Cloudant</title><url>http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43238.wss</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life. After many years, his &amp;quot;creation&amp;quot; comes back to IBM. There is some irony in there I think.&lt;p&gt;I remember him disavowing CouchDB and urging everyone to &amp;quot;ride with him&amp;quot; towards Couchbase. There were promises about how CouchDB will get contributions from Couchbase, and how it will get RPM and packaging scripts, docs and continued help. But not much of that happened. The community split. Most CouchDB developers who ended up on the other side of the fense at Couchbase didn&amp;#x27;t end up committing or helping that much over the years. So I can&amp;#x27;t see, looking back, anything good at all about that split.&lt;p&gt;But Cloudant sort of took over helping and watching over CouchDB. Quite a few of the contributors work for CouchDB, and they are very smart and helpful individuals. I hope this means good news for CouchDB as a project. I would want to see it grow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omh</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s definitely interesting. I can remember people in the Notes community wondering why IBM didn&amp;#x27;t either take CouchDB and use it as a new Notes backend, or alternatively push the existing Notes bits as a mature document-based database.&lt;p&gt;The end quote from Katz&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Formula Engine Rewrite&amp;quot; post[1] is interesting:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But ultimately IBM killed Iris. In late 2001 IBM folded Iris Associates and converted all the employees to IBM. All the energy the Iris building had was seeping out. Really it was more pushed out by the BS that IBM management kept trying to sell us...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;damienkatz.net&amp;#x2F;2005&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;formula-engine-rewrite.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>IBM to Acquire Cloudant</title><url>http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43238.wss</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life. After many years, his &amp;quot;creation&amp;quot; comes back to IBM. There is some irony in there I think.&lt;p&gt;I remember him disavowing CouchDB and urging everyone to &amp;quot;ride with him&amp;quot; towards Couchbase. There were promises about how CouchDB will get contributions from Couchbase, and how it will get RPM and packaging scripts, docs and continued help. But not much of that happened. The community split. Most CouchDB developers who ended up on the other side of the fense at Couchbase didn&amp;#x27;t end up committing or helping that much over the years. So I can&amp;#x27;t see, looking back, anything good at all about that split.&lt;p&gt;But Cloudant sort of took over helping and watching over CouchDB. Quite a few of the contributors work for CouchDB, and they are very smart and helpful individuals. I hope this means good news for CouchDB as a project. I would want to see it grow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jchrisa</author><text>At Couchbase we created two open source mobile embedded databases (iOS and Android) that can sync with Apache CouchDB &amp;#x2F; Cloudant &amp;#x2F; PouchDB. Which is no small contribution. Even Cloudant bases thier mobile stuff on that code.&lt;p&gt;More info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mobile.couchbase.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mobile.couchbase.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mailing list: &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mobile-couchbase&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;m&amp;#x2F;#!forum&amp;#x2F;mobile-couchbase&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>