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We all work at the same company - Apollo is a new project brought to you by the same people that developed Meteor, but focusing specifically on data management. Apollo actually started out many months ago as a plan to upgrade Meteor's data layer, especially to support multiple backend sources like SQL and microservices. As we talked to more people we figured out that this technology would be very useful for the application development community as a whole, so we decided to make it a separate project that can be used both inside and outside Meteor.

In Meteor 1.5, we're going to start making the integration with Apollo much more straightforward, so that people who like the other aspects of Meteor (integrated build system, accounts, mobile app compilation, etc) can also take advantage of all of the data loading benefits of Apollo.

Since Apollo addresses so many of the concerns people have had historically with Meteor's data system, including the ability to use different data sources, turning off reactivity, native mobile app support, and more, we are spending most of our time working on Apollo which we think will bring huge benefits both to Meteor developers and the wider application development community.

However, we're committed to continued development of the Meteor framework, both by implementing stuff ourselves and moving to a much more community driven development process (something that the Meteor community has wanted for a long time, and what we're doing with Apollo from the start). Just yesterday, we shipped Meteor 1.4, a huge release which includes a ton of core improvements and upgrades to Node 4 and MongoDB 3.2.