A lot of people will magically start to treat you as a real contender when you release it, even if you've been viable for several months or even years.
"The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB [...]"
It's amazing how little research went into that first, very bold, statement. There have been quite a few non-relational datastores that have been released before CouchDB. Even if we restrict it to only document stores, we still have MongoDB which was released as 'stable' (1.0) on the 27th of August, 2009.
I think lines like that should serve to remind us that journalists probably only know as much about law, finance, or science as they do technology. It's just that their ignorance is more obvious when they write about topics we know about.
It worked fine on Windows at least a year ago when that build was in the same unofficial and unsupported state it is in now (http://books.couchdb.org/relax/appendix/installing-on-window...). What has changed in a year that makes it suddenly "production ready" on Windows?
For what it's worth, I must say that I was very impressed today with how much 'better behaved' this release was in comparison to bother previous "major" releases (0.11 for example) _and_ recent trunk snapshots. In particular, they seem to have ironed out the nagging dependency issues couch had displayed on debian-based installations and are now reliably passing all of the unit / end-to-end tests.
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A lot of people will magically start to treat you as a real contender when you release it, even if you've been viable for several months or even years.
It's amazing how little research went into that first, very bold, statement. There have been quite a few non-relational datastores that have been released before CouchDB. Even if we restrict it to only document stores, we still have MongoDB which was released as 'stable' (1.0) on the 27th of August, 2009.
For what it's worth, I must say that I was very impressed today with how much 'better behaved' this release was in comparison to bother previous "major" releases (0.11 for example) _and_ recent trunk snapshots. In particular, they seem to have ironed out the nagging dependency issues couch had displayed on debian-based installations and are now reliably passing all of the unit / end-to-end tests.
Great work.