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The email I received from Cloudant: "Hello-- Today is an exciting day for Cloudant as a business: We have agreed to be acquired by IBM [press release]. What d
by davis_m 13y ago
The email I received from Cloudant:
"Hello-- Today is an exciting day for Cloudant as a business: We have agreed to be acquired by IBM [press release].
What does that mean for you as a customer? Not too much changes, actually.
The key elements of Cloudant that have helped make us successful will not change. Our team will remain intact and will continue to focus on delivering innovative products backed by our world-class operations, services and support teams. Cloudant’s product strategy and roadmap will continue as before, only with faster innovation. By tapping into IBM’s global resources, we can rapidly scale our service and introduce new products that will benefit customers.
Our position of providing a cloud-agnostic data layer will not change and remains an important differentiator for our business. We know that customers need options to prevent vendor lock-in as the cloud industry consolidates. Cloudant and IBM are the latest example of this trend, yes, but with some important distinctions.
We have a clear agreement in place to continue developing and promoting Cloudant as an open platform. Widely accepted standards like JSON and REST APIs will remain, so customers can quickly migrate onto and off of Cloudant as needs change. Cloudant’s participation in the open source community will continue, and at an accelerated pace. IBM has a track record of funding and promoting open technologies, like Linux. Over time, we’ll work toward a similar model with the open source communities close to Cloudant.
Thank you for your continued support of our business. And look for more good things from Cloudant and IBM, coming soon.
Sincerely,
Derek Schoettle
CEO, Cloudant"
- dochtman 13y agoThe Cloudant CTO also commented on the CouchDB developer's list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201402.mbox/%3C86FF6E4F-D4AF-4E3C-A94F-6C7243AB122B%40cloudant.com%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201402....
- rdtsc 13y agoThat link doesn't work for me
- mbroberg 13y agoHere's the email that Cloudant's CTO sent to Apache CouchDB: SUBJECT: Cloudant & IBM: Our Commitment to Apache CouchDB Apache CouchDB means a great deal to me, and to Cloudant as a company. Cloudant and CouchDB have grown alongside each other over the past several years in one of the more authentic vendor/community collaborations I can think of in Apache history. Today marks the next step in Cloudant’s growth as we enter into a definitive agreement to become part of IBM. What does this mean for CouchDB? I would not have agreed to this transaction if I had any concerns about Cloudant’s ability to continue its contributions and collaboration with Apache CouchDB. IBM has a strong track record in open source software and a productive relationship with Apache; in fact, IBM was instrumental in bringing CouchDB to the ASF many years ago. IBM is fully supportive of our efforts here, and I’m looking forward to bringing increased resources to bear in support of the project. CouchDB has the potential to shape the future of distributed data management and computing. 2013 was a year of tremendous progress, as we doubled our committer base and shipped no fewer than eight releases. Already in 2014 we’ve seen amazing progress on long-standing initiatives to enhance the core of the system. The timing is right — in the market and for the community — to take the next big step forward. With your help, that is exactly what we will do. Truly, the future of CouchDB is CouchDB. Adam Kocoloski Co-Founder & CTO, Cloudant
- nslater 13y agoPosted this to the blog: https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/cloudant_and_ibm_our_commitment https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/cloudant_and_ibm_our_...