[mikealrogers]

This was a good analysis of why the prominent CouchDB companies didn't spent time/money evangelizing the project but it didn't cover the dramatic difference w/ how 10gen handles MongoDB.

10gen spends all their time and money marketing MongoDB. They appear to spend more marketing it than on engineering it. They can afford to do this because their "product" is MongoDB and not an alternative MongoDB based product like the prominent CouchDB companies.

Very little attention is paid to the fact that MongoDB is AGPL and that they are one of the first companies to bring the extortionware business model of the GPL to software as a service via AGPL.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Licensing http://www.10gen.com/commercial-licenses