Terracotta Joins Software AG
Software AG acquires Terracotta to drive new standards for performance and scalability of enterprise
and cloud applications
May 23, 2011—Software AG, the global leader in Business Process Excellence, today announced that they
have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Terracotta, the company behind some of the most widely
used software for application scalability and performance.
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Read the blog post from Ari Zilka, Terracotta Founder and CTO ›
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Frequently asked questions ›
Frequently Asked Questions
What is being announced?
Software AG, the global leader in Business Process Excellence, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Terracotta, the company behind some of the most widely used software for application scalability and performance.
What does this mean for Terracotta customers?
We view this as a very positive move for Terracotta customers. Through this acquisition, we gain access to Software AG’s:
- Global marketing, sales and service organization, which will allow us to extend our market reach and better serve our customers
- Considerable financial and technical resources, which will help us accelerate the development and release of new product innovations
- Proven software stack, which gives us a platform for expanding our cloud solutions and more choice for customers
What does this mean for Ehcache, Quartz and Terracotta open source users? Will you remain open source?
Yes. The open source versions of each project will continue to be maintained and advanced.
Where will the Terracotta team be located?
Terracotta is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California, and maintains offices in New Delhi,
India. There is no plan to relocate the Terracotta team.
About Terracotta, Inc.
Terracotta, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW), develops breakthrough software that delivers snap-in performance, scale and availability
for enterprise applications. A recognized innovator of in-memory technologies, Terracotta's products include BigMemory™, which bypasses Java garbage collection to enable
in-memory stores of over 1 terabyte; Ehcache, the de facto standard for enterprise Java and default caching solution for many popular applications, containers and
frameworks; and Quartz, a leading job scheduler. With more than 500,000 deployments, including the majority of the Fortune 2000, Terracotta is behind some of the most
widely-used software for application scalability, availability and performance. For more information, please visit www.terracotta.org.
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