One has to wonder how this fits in with FathomDB who recently partnered with Rackspace on the heels of Amazon RDS. Could be collaborative or a replacement. Thoughts?
If they want to offer Drizzle to customers, they probably need something like FathomDB. Considering that they're already collaborating, I could see them acquiring FathomDB sometime soon.
They're different and complimentary. I think the ultimate goal here is to promote things that are open source and/or not proprietary.