I really like your write-up.

I'm sad that the Couchapp thing never took off or is getting de-emphasized. That was one of the really brain-bendy ideas about Couch that I loved, that these DB-side applications could also replicate to other people.

I'm only just catching up with Couch and finding the db-per-user stuff. Do you know of anyone shipping a Couch instance inside thick clients, like a traditional desktop application?