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    <title>Apache HBase&#153; Sponsors</title>
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<section name="Sponsors">
    <p>First off, thanks to <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html">all who sponsor</a>
       our parent, the Apache Software Foundation.
    </p>
<p>The below companies have been gracious enough to provide their commerical tool offerings free of charge to the Apache HBase&#153; project.
<ul>
	<li>The crew at <a href="http://www.ej-technologies.com/">ej-technologies</a> have
        been let us use <a href="http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/jprofiler/overview.html">JProfiler</a> for years now.</li>
	<li>The lads at <a href="http://headwaysoftware.com/">headway software</a> have
        given us a license for <a href="http://headwaysoftware.com/products/?code=Restructure101">Restructure101</a>
        so we can untangle our interdependency mess.</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.yourkit.com">YourKit</a> allows us to use their <a href="http://www.yourkit.com/overview/index.jsp">Java Profiler</a>.</li>
	<li>Some of us use <a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea">IntelliJ IDEA</a> thanks to <a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/">JetBrains</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<section name="Sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation">
<p>To contribute to the Apache Software Foundation, a good idea in our opinion, see the <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html">ASF Sponsorship</a> page.
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