New Gig
Great news!
I've accepted a permanent, full-time job with IBM. My primary duties are (drumroll....) CouchDB! So all the stuff I've been doing up until now for free I'll be doing full time and be getting paid for it! Yee Haw!
All the code will be Apache licensed and donated to the Apache Software Foundation, with the plan CouchDB will eventually become an official Apache project. A big plus here is the Apache license allows anyone to do pretty much anything with the code, so everything remains truly open source. I wouldn't have done this without IBM's commitment to keeping CouchDB open.
Huge thanks to Anant Jhingran, David Fallside, and Sam Ruby at IBM for helping to make this happen. And of course huge thanks to all the CouchDB project members and contributors who've put in their time and effort to push the project forward. This is a important validation of the project and everyone's effort.
Posted January 1, 2008 9:26 PM
Comments
Congratulations Damien!
But wait, it was Jan 1 not April 1? Seriously, there is nothing better than working on something you enjoy and getting paid for it, so congratulations!
Carl
Carl Tyler, January 2, 2008 2:21 PM
Congrats, Damien! That's spectacular news.
Tim Tripcony, January 2, 2008 2:21 PM
The link to Sam Ruby is pointing to Fallside. :)
Alexandre Bairos, January 2, 2008 2:24 PM
Sweet news! Congrats, Damien. :-)
Chris Blatnick, January 2, 2008 2:40 PM
> The link to Sam Ruby is pointing to Fallside. :)
Fixed now. Thanks!
Damien Katz, January 2, 2008 2:56 PM
I will just add another congrats to the list!
(perhaps an official Windows build is in the future? ;)
Jos, January 2, 2008 2:57 PM
Congrats!! Get to work! ;-)
Dan Sickles, January 2, 2008 3:00 PM
Awesome. This made my day.
Matthew King, January 2, 2008 3:08 PM
This is awesome news! What a way to start the new year! Congratulations Damien!
Michael Hansen, January 2, 2008 3:26 PM
Wow, that is terrific. I am really looking forward to using CouchDB in some serious applications. Brilliant start to the New Year
Andy Burnett, January 2, 2008 3:26 PM
Fantastic news, for both you and the CouchDB project! Congratulations.
Stephane Daury, January 2, 2008 3:30 PM
Congrats!
Jim Lindley, January 2, 2008 3:49 PM
Felicidades, Damien. Boosting CouchDB. Great!
alsanan, January 2, 2008 4:12 PM
Congratulations, Damien - I think CouchDB is fantastic and you deserve all the good future that comes your way.
Henry, January 2, 2008 4:18 PM
Congrats Damien!
Chris Toohey, January 2, 2008 4:38 PM
Congratulations! :)
Daniel, January 2, 2008 4:40 PM
Hey, you're not (back) in bluepages yet :-) Great to have your energy back in blue!
Ed Brill, January 2, 2008 4:54 PM
Holy Moly! - wOOt! Congrats Damien!
Bruce Elgort, January 2, 2008 5:07 PM
Any chance that they'll keep their mitts off rewriting it in Java, because that's the "thing to do"?
Dan Farina, January 2, 2008 5:30 PM
YAAAAAAAAAY!
-- jdf@us.IBM.com
Jonatha Feinberg, January 2, 2008 5:32 PM
Congratulations! Great news indeed.
Vitor Pereira, January 2, 2008 5:40 PM
Great news, and well done! I can't wait to see what you can build CouchDB into given proper resources .. and I'm relieved you can work on it more without sacificing time with the family.
Fantastic. I had no idea IBM was this visionary.
Sho, January 2, 2008 6:36 PM
Fantastic news, Damien. Congratulations!
Justin Sheehy, January 2, 2008 9:32 PM
Welcome Back!
raj_balasubramanian at us.ibm
Raj, January 2, 2008 10:07 PM
Wow, now hurry and get back to work CouchDB is really great and a new direction. I am as interested in it as binary serilization like AMF. Some really interesting things happening in data these days.
Ryan, January 2, 2008 10:14 PM
Good luck with it!
Brian Aker, January 3, 2008 12:44 AM
Congratulations!
This is great news for CouchDb (and by extension, Ajatus)
Henri Bergius, January 3, 2008 3:25 AM
Hearty congrats, Damien. I'm terribly glad that you'll be able to contribute where you'll likely have the most impact on the community.
Adam Smith, January 3, 2008 3:38 AM
Crikey!
Hearty congrats!
Ben Poole, January 3, 2008 4:28 AM
Just checkin its not April 1st again - nope . Congrats!
Steve Castledine, January 3, 2008 4:47 AM
Congratulations Damien, this is really great news for you personally and for the project. It's a huge credit to you that IBM have seen that there is something worth investing in here.
This is soooo cool. I've got a huge grin on my face. Though not as big as the one I suspect you are wearing ;)
Kerr, January 3, 2008 5:35 AM
Great news Damien. I'm very excited for you. We're doing some interesting stuff with Amazon SDB and would like to support CouchDb for our app as well.
Greg Arnette, January 3, 2008 7:32 AM
Great, congratulations and welcome back!
Mariano Kamp, January 3, 2008 7:51 AM
Well done and I am so glad your efforts have been helped along by IBM.
Ian Connor, January 3, 2008 9:19 AM
Awesome. Please leverage the power of a big company like IBM to develop Couch and release it. Save us from 40 year old database technologies and proprietary document file formats.
Todd, January 3, 2008 9:38 AM
That is great news. I'm glad you'll get to work on what you love, plus get a paycheck! I hope you'll find that IBM is "different" than when you left. See you on Sametime.
Alan Lepofsky, January 3, 2008 10:36 AM
Whoa! Cool. Congrats and welcome to big blue. Can't wait to see what develops!
Ryan, January 3, 2008 10:49 AM
Congratulations! Much success to you!
UnderpaidLoveMonki, January 3, 2008 11:05 AM
Fantastic and congratulations. I'm really happy for you and perhaps this is just the boost needed to take Couch DB over the top.
Lance Spellman, January 3, 2008 2:46 PM
Wow congratulations Damien...! Very happy for you.
Rob Novak, January 3, 2008 3:46 PM
Great to hear you are returning to the fold... Good luck with the new job.
Stuart McIntyre, January 3, 2008 5:07 PM
Congratulations! I'm really pleased for you.
David Bailey, January 3, 2008 9:44 PM
Wahoo! Glad to have you back. Your new job just might even be more fun than working on the Notes home page (hum. when did we work on that together? was it R5 or 6????!!??)
Mary Beth Raven, January 3, 2008 9:51 PM
Some of the better news I have heard in a long time. It will be great to have the IBM name behind the ideas bouncing around inside your head.
Sean Burgess, January 3, 2008 10:11 PM
Congratulations Damien, and kudos to IBM for recognizing a good thing early on!!!
Vanson Samuel, January 3, 2008 11:44 PM
Congratulations!!
That is fantastic and a great win for all!
At one point a was very afraid that CouchDb complety would loose momentum and fizzle out, but Couchb being discussed much in the media now ..and this great news! :-)
brgds Jesper Kiaer
Jesper Kiaer, January 4, 2008 3:24 AM
I'm late to the party but ... many congratulations Damien, this is great news for all concerned.
Julian Woodward, January 4, 2008 4:20 AM
Congratulations Damien
Jawad, January 4, 2008 11:34 AM
Damien -
Congratulations! I was reading up on Anant's blog today and this is fabulous news. Welcome to the team! You're going to have a lot of fun with us!
Lauren Cooney
http://cooney.typepad.com
Lauren Cooney, January 4, 2008 12:06 PM
My, my, it's amazing what's happening these days. Welcome (back) to IBM. Much like any other large ecosystem, there are some really cool places within IBM, as evidenced by this news. Will look forward to seeing CouchDB in the Incubator!
Shane Curcuru, January 4, 2008 12:45 PM
wow, excellent news! Well done IBM, and well done Damien!
Alan Bell, January 4, 2008 1:37 PM
WOW!!! Congratulations, Damien! That is huge. Even _I_ can see why you would be excited about this. ;-)
I'm curious why IBM would do this, though. I can think of a few reasons... a couple even make a valid business case... but can you tell me what IBM's reasons are?
John Smart, January 4, 2008 11:30 PM
Welcome back to Lotus! Err, I mean IBM... :)
Mika Heinonen, January 5, 2008 6:31 AM
Wow, that's kewl dude!! And what's funny is that as you're coming in, I'm heading out ;)
You going to Lotusphere?
Rock, January 5, 2008 5:25 PM
Congrats, Damien. I hope you'll find that IBM is different enough than the one, that you left...
Mathias Pohl, January 6, 2008 12:41 PM
Dude am I late to the party or what? This is cool news, congrats Damien and CouchDB team.
Jan, January 6, 2008 2:10 PM
Congrats Damien. Have been missing a lot of CouchDB progress lately. But definitely will spend time catching up with it :)
William Beh, January 7, 2008 4:10 AM
Excellent!
Jeremy Zawodny, January 14, 2008 6:45 PM
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