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Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support

52 points by andrewpbrett 17y ago

rms 17y ago
Congrats Damien. For those keeping score at home, this may make Damien the most successful entrepreneur to be rejected from Y Combinator at the interview stage. http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html
- abossy 17y ago
  I assume this means he has left IBM. It feels like only yesterday that I was chatting with him on Sametime.
- siong1987 17y ago
  In fact, there is http://cloudant.com/ http://cloudant.com/ from YC.
  - falsestprophet 17y ago
    What proportion of YC startups have the word cloud in their names?
jchrisa 17y ago
It's true. We had a really great fundraising experience (awesome opportunity to meet smart people, but it's a lot of driving if you live in Berkeley). We're all about CouchDB adoption, so we'll be working to lower barriers to entry for new developers and potential users. If you are using CouchDB, contact us, we want to hear your story. There's more, we'll be letting you know in January.
- tlrobinson 17y ago
  What's the relationship between Relaxed and couch.io?
  - trevorturk 17y ago
    J Chris Anderson via http://twitter.com/jchris/status/6561506408 http://twitter.com/jchris/status/6561506408 "Relaxed, Inc. is the company. We plan to offer CouchDB hosting and other services under the couch.io name."
- dantheman 17y ago
  Congrats on your success!
dnsworks 17y ago
The open source support model is a scary one. Redhat & MySQL feel like the exceptions. It is hard to recall any other "open source support" companies that have really made it in a big way.
- antirez 17y ago
  Maybe this will work very well. At least I hope so, congrats to this guys, they deserve this success.
- russss 17y ago
  Cloudera (http://cloudera.com/ http://cloudera.com/) is doing pretty well. Canonical too, although it's not clear if they're actually making any money. And there are scores of other, smaller companies which are doing well.
  - mallipeddi 17y ago
    I'm wondering how you know Cloudera is doing well? I noticed you work for Smarkets now (and Last.fm before). I'm just curious to know how much money can you realistically expect to make for a pure consulting business like Cloudera.
- sadiq 17y ago
  JBoss is another one that comes to mind.
- InclinedPlane 17y ago
  Memcached?
- va_coder 17y ago
  IBM and Oracle make a lot of money providing services around products that are <i>mostly</i> open source.
jbooth 17y ago
Can someone explain CouchDB's advantages to me? From the cocktail napkin diagram on their apache page, it looks like the only major advantages over vanilla replicated Solr would be 1) Better replication architecture (much better?) 2) Convienence layers in javascript for querying What am I missing? Is the main purpose of the project the replication or the javascript libraries? Is the fact that you can update to arbitrary hosts as well as read from arbitrary hosts the big win? It doesn't look like it's sharded so I can't see any huge scalability gains over Solr..

52 points by andrewpbrett 17y ago

rms 17y ago

Congrats Damien. For those keeping score at home, this may make Damien the most successful entrepreneur to be rejected from Y Combinator at the interview stage. http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html

abossy 17y ago
I assume this means he has left IBM. It feels like only yesterday that I was chatting with him on Sametime.
siong1987 17y ago
In fact, there is http://cloudant.com/ http://cloudant.com/ from YC.
- falsestprophet 17y ago
  What proportion of YC startups have the word cloud in their names?

jchrisa 17y ago

It's true. We had a really great fundraising experience (awesome opportunity to meet smart people, but it's a lot of driving if you live in Berkeley). We're all about CouchDB adoption, so we'll be working to lower barriers to entry for new developers and potential users. If you are using CouchDB, contact us, we want to hear your story. There's more, we'll be letting you know in January.

tlrobinson 17y ago
What's the relationship between Relaxed and couch.io?
- trevorturk 17y ago
  J Chris Anderson via http://twitter.com/jchris/status/6561506408 http://twitter.com/jchris/status/6561506408 "Relaxed, Inc. is the company. We plan to offer CouchDB hosting and other services under the couch.io name."
dantheman 17y ago
Congrats on your success!

dnsworks 17y ago

The open source support model is a scary one. Redhat & MySQL feel like the exceptions. It is hard to recall any other "open source support" companies that have really made it in a big way.

antirez 17y ago
Maybe this will work very well. At least I hope so, congrats to this guys, they deserve this success.
russss 17y ago
Cloudera (http://cloudera.com/ http://cloudera.com/) is doing pretty well. Canonical too, although it's not clear if they're actually making any money. And there are scores of other, smaller companies which are doing well.
- mallipeddi 17y ago
  I'm wondering how you know Cloudera is doing well? I noticed you work for Smarkets now (and Last.fm before). I'm just curious to know how much money can you realistically expect to make for a pure consulting business like Cloudera.
sadiq 17y ago
JBoss is another one that comes to mind.
InclinedPlane 17y ago
Memcached?
va_coder 17y ago
IBM and Oracle make a lot of money providing services around products that are <i>mostly</i> open source.

jbooth 17y ago

Can someone explain CouchDB's advantages to me? From the cocktail napkin diagram on their apache page, it looks like the only major advantages over vanilla replicated Solr would be 1) Better replication architecture (much better?) 2) Convienence layers in javascript for querying What am I missing? Is the main purpose of the project the replication or the javascript libraries? Is the fact that you can update to arbitrary hosts as well as read from arbitrary hosts the big win? It doesn't look like it's sharded so I can't see any huge scalability gains over Solr..