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Is CouchDB in Trouble?

Posted by tracyanne on · 3 comments
InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner
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From the 'Not so relaxing news' files: An interesting mailing list posting caught my eye the other day titled, EOL for couchdb. At first I did a double-take, couchDB is hitting end-of-life? How could that be? As it turns out it is the CouchDB support that Ubuntu has that is going EOL and that's very bad news for CouchDB in my opinion. Long story short is that Ubuntu - with UbuntuOne and other efforts - is the reason that I first ever even heard of the CouchDB and now Ubuntu is giving up on it.

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Comments (3)

is Ubuntu in trouble?

Honestly, who cares if Ubuntu dumps a software program? Ubuntu is officially irrelevant thanks to their adoption of their dumbed-down Unity interface. No serious Linux user would bother with it any more. So any further choices that Ubuntu makes are totally irrelevant.
i don't think it's quite the same. ubuntu-one is replacing couchdb and stopping desktopcouch development.

couchdb is still there, and ubuntu packages will be able to use it. this is not like unity which replaces the gnome interface without giving users an option to use the normal gnome. it is also not replacing something for the end user who does not understand the difference (and hence isn't aware of the options) and thus simply forced to adapt.

nor is it replacing the couchdb package on ubuntu which will still be available to developers as before. the change only affects developers targeting the ubuntu-one services and those using desktopcouch, which is not all users/developers of couchdb on ubuntu.

greetings, eMBee.
I don't use couchDb, and try to get rid of it from my computer.

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