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.
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.
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.
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