Amit Pandey

(SYS-CON Media) - Terracotta took a major step this month by open sourcing all of our Java clustering technology. We believe that this step will make a powerful clustering option readily available to the Java community and indeed could help make the notion of clustering itself simpler and more ubiquitous. This is an initiative that is many months in the making, and I wanted to share our thinking and motivation for it with you. Before joining Terracotta I had spent close to decade at Network Appliance where we perfected a business model built on extremely proprietary technology - we referred to our products as tin-wrapped software. So when Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka proposed an open source model based on the observation that we could align better with our OSS customers and p... (more)