The difference between CouchDB and Lotus Notes

I was trying to search for an old comment of mine and stumbled across this great answer for the question: “What is the difference between CouchDB and Lotus Notes?”

This is just the summary:

Summery: CouchDB is brand new software that is developing a core that has a similar conceptual but far more sophisticated design to that used in Lotus Notes Domino. Lotus Notes Domino is a mature fully featured product that is capable of being deployed today. CouchDB is starting from scratch, building a solid foundation for future feature development. Lotus Notes Domino is continuing to develop new features, but is doing so on a 20 year old platform that strives to maintain backwards compatibility. There are features in Notes Domino that you might wish were in CouchDB, but there are also features in Notes Domino that are anachronistic in today’s world.

I’m not sure if the author “Kerrr” plagiarized the entire answer but I highly suggest reading the whole thing if you are ever at a loss for the technical explanation of “What is Lotus Notes?”

Update: A little info on who Kerrr is (from Matt White of the UK)…

Just to clarify, Kerr Rainey is a London based Domino / Couch DB developer who really knows his stuff.

Kerr is a regular commenter on lots of the blogs, helps out with ILUG and UKLUG etc, i.e. a busy member of the Lotus community.