Everything remains open source and community editions remain freely available and fully featured. From that perspective, nothing really changes except each will get the best of what the other has to offer.

Even the new mobile stuff?

my next step is to clean up the mobile build so we can get it in a proper public repo.

How are you going to make it work on iphone by the way? I doubt spidermonkey and erlang will be accepted there. What's the plan?

We're waiting for the App Store Review team to get back to us before we're announcing things. I hope it'll be soon, can't wait!

(from Jan's mail to the Apache dev@ list)

It is simple, really: at CouchOne we were 100% committed on the Open Source side of things and at Couchbase we will continue to do so at the same degree. In terms of organisation, Couchbase will be it's own independent Open Source project that has Apache CouchDB and memcached as dependencies, but adds a few things of its own that warrant being its own project. Our combined engineering team, led by Damien, will continue to contribute to Apache CouchDB in the same way as we've been to date, only more.