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= Apache HBase(TM) Sponsors

First off, thanks to link:http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html[all who sponsor] our parent, the Apache Software Foundation.

The below companies have been gracious enough to provide their commerical tool offerings free of charge to the Apache HBase(TM) project.

* The crew at link:http://www.ej-technologies.com/[ej-technologies] have been letting us use link:http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/jprofiler/overview.html[JProfiler] for years now.

* The lads at link:http://headwaysoftware.com/[headway software] have given us a license for link:http://headwaysoftware.com/products/?code=Restructure101[Restructure101] so we can untangle our interdependency mess.

* link:http://www.yourkit.com[YourKit] allows us to use their link:http://www.yourkit.com/overview/index.jsp[Java Profiler].
* Some of us use link:http://www.jetbrains.com/idea[IntelliJ IDEA] thanks to link:http://www.jetbrains.com/[JetBrains].
* Thank you to Boris at link:http://www.vectorportal.com/[Vector Portal] for granting us a license on the image on which our logo is based.

== Sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation">
To contribute to the Apache Software Foundation, a good idea in our opinion, see the link:http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html[ASF Sponsorship] page.
