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CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm,
delicious sacrilege


     Dan Scott, Laurentian University

             code4lib 2008
           February 28, 2008

             (Thanks Aaron!)



                      
A wonderful, awful idea

        Damien Katz wanted to recreate Lotus Notes
    ●



            with a good API
        ●



            and a good data format
        ●



            under an open source license (Apache)
        ●



            without wasting effort on making it a groupware email / 
        ●


            calendaring application
        See http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/
    ●




                                      
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege

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CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege

  • 1. CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege Dan Scott, Laurentian University code4lib 2008 February 28, 2008 (Thanks Aaron!)    
  • 2. A wonderful, awful idea Damien Katz wanted to recreate Lotus Notes ● with a good API ● and a good data format ● under an open source license (Apache) ● without wasting effort on making it a groupware email /  ● calendaring application See http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/ ●