There are many decisions involved when using new technologies and new products. Many people will often go for open source software because it’s free and you can modify the code. To me being “an open source” project involves a whole lot more than simply having an opened code base that you can modify and use for free, but it also involves a large amount of factors as such as technical documentation, user examples, tools for a software, the community based around a project and the likes of actual response time from developers.
This article is a major Kudos to the CouchDB developers. In particular I would like to thank Jan Lehnardt, Paul J. Davis and Robert Newson from the CouchDB fame. Let me explain why…
