> Further, rather than just saying "We've got this great new invention-- a better technology, and we're moving to that!" the message seems to be "we are just wa

> Further, rather than just saying "We've got this great new invention-- a better technology, and we're moving to that!" the message seems to be "we are just wanting to re-invent the wheel, so to justify it, we have to make a negative claim about couchDB. Ubuntu re-invent a lot of wheels (sometimes poorly). Just off the top of my head: upstart, unity, launchpad...