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IBM is creeping towards the cloud, picking up startups on the way, including a NoSQL database company to fill in some of the perceived shortcomings of DB2. The acquisition of Cloudant was announced on Monday and will give IBM control of a NoSQL "database-as-a-service" (DBaaS) [As a service? What the hell was a database …

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  1. Ian Michael Gumby
    Boffin

    Funny... JSON fiddling...

    The weird thing is that they (IBM) already has JSON stuff baked in to their IDS (Informix) Engine already. Not as a datablade, but as part of the query language itself. (Or so I am informed.)

    Not sure why they bought Cloudant, but then again, IBM has been doing some peculiar things of late...

    1. Where not exists

      Even stranger...

      The creator of CouchDB, Damien Katz, used to work on the Lotus Notes products.

      http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html

      1. Ian Michael Gumby
        Devil

        Re: Even stranger...

        Wow... smells of Mike Olson and selling his companies to Larry Ellison... ;-)

        Yet another product in the Information Management pillar to help make the message even more 'cloudier' and not in a good way. ;-)

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