Terracotta Announces Acquisition of Quartz, the Leading Open Source Scheduling Software

With Quartz, Terracotta to Deliver Reliable and Distributed Job Scheduling and Workload Management for Enterprise Applications in Public and Private Clouds

San Francisco—November 19, 2009 Terracotta, a recognized leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, today announced the acquisition of privately-held open source job-scheduling software Quartz. Quartz is the most widely used Java scheduler in the world, with tens of thousands of enterprise production deployments at companies such as Vodafone, Level 3, Cisco and Adobe. In addition, Quartz is built into many products made by companies such as Atlassian, SpringSource, a division of VMware, and Red Hat.

A number of Terracotta customers and users already cluster Quartz to enable high availability job scheduling and execution and to more easily scale their applications to multiple nodes. Quartz is ideal for creating simple or complex schedules for triggering application tasks such as driving process workflow and generating application data reports and recurring system maintenance checkups. Terracotta makes clustering Quartz a simpler, faster, and far less expensive alternative to using a central database for coordination. Now, with the acquisition, Terracotta will quickly integrate Quartz within the Terracotta platform to enable users to easily scale applications in large virtualized environments and private clouds and to distribute the massive workloads characteristic of these environments.

“As the trend toward scaleout in virtualized environments continues to gain speed, the importance of coordination across application instances becomes a critical capability,” said Amit Pandey, CEO, Terracotta. “Our acquisition of Quartz perfectly positions us to solve this problem for our users. Terracotta will be extending the products’ APIs to include node aware scheduling features that will make scaling out considerably simpler in virtualized environments.”

“I am excited to bring Quartz into the Terracotta family of products and to extend the investment in this technology,” said James House, founder of Quartz. “This acquisition will benefit both communities. In the short term, Quartz users will get a cost-effective and easy clustering solution; in the long term, large-scale Terracotta users will be able to easily add Quartz to manage distributed workloads.”

Terracotta is committed to preserving the Quartz community and investing in the further development of Quartz and will maintain Quartz as an open source product under the Apache 2 license. Quartz will remain available for download at its new home at http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/. Terracotta and Quartz have already implemented build and test infrastructure leveraging Maven and Hudson, and an updated product integration is underway, with an Express version of clustered Quartz available immediately upon request at http://www.terracotta.org/quartz.

To learn more, please join Terracotta for a webcast on Tuesday December 15, 2009 at 11:00 am US Pacific time, 2:00 pm US Eastern time, to discuss the Terracotta and Quartz combination, current support and product offerings for Quartz from Terracotta, and a product roadmap for the future. To register for this webcast, please use the link below:

https://terracotta.webex.com/terracotta/onstage/g.php?d=934168640&t=a

About Terracotta, Inc.

Terracotta is infrastructure software that provides affordable and scalable high availability for Java applications. Companies use Terracotta to offload work from databases and application servers and to reduce their development efforts. Founded in 2003, Terracotta, Inc. is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco. More information is available at www.terracottatech.com.

About Quartz
Quartz is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be integrated with, or used along side virtually any J2EE or J2SE application - from the smallest stand-alone application to the largest e-commerce system. Quartz can be used to create simple or complex schedules for executing tens, hundreds, or even tens-of-thousands of jobs; jobs whose tasks are defined as standard Java components or EJBs. The Quartz Scheduler includes many enterprise-class features, such as JTA transactions and clustering. Quartz is freely usable, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.