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Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support

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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

I assume this means he has left IBM. It feels like only yesterday that I was chatting with him on Sametime.

In fact, there is http://cloudant.com/ from YC.

What proportion of YC startups have the word cloud in their names?

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.

What's the relationship between Relaxed and couch.io?

J Chris Anderson via 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."

Congrats on your success!

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..

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.

Maybe this will work very well. At least I hope so, congrats to this guys, they deserve this success.

Cloudera (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.

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.

JBoss is another one that comes to mind.

Memcached?

IBM and Oracle make a lot of money providing services around products that are <i>mostly</i> open source.

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