Former PeopleSoft, VMware, Oblix, and ePeople Executives Join Qlusters; Qlusters Strengthens Worldwide Management Team and Expands Global Reach.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Qlusters Inc., the leader in intelligent Linux datacenter management, today announced the hiring of four senior executives with worldwide responsibilities. The new hires are Dave Canelis, vice president of services, Olivier Gachot, vice president of sales, Fred Gallagher vice president of global alliances, and Paola Lubet, vice president of marketing. In addition to the new corporate leadership, Qlusters has expanded operations with a new subsidiary in London and its third North American sales office in Houston.

"Qlusters is acting on an exceptional worldwide growth opportunity as industries embrace standardization on Linux and moves to utility computing," said Dave Martin, CEO and Chairman of Qlusters. "With the addition of Dave, Oliver, Fred and Paola to the executive management team, we are poised to solidify our North American presence, and to expand our leadership position in the European market."

In his new role as vice president of worldwide services, Canelis will oversee Qlusters' professional services, customer support, and training organizations. He will focus on expanding the company's service organization to support the new offices in London and Houston, and the New York and Palo Alto Competence Centers. Canelis brings to Qlusters over 20 years of cross-functional experience in the technology industry. Most recently, he was vice president of customer services for Oblix, Inc. Prior to Oblix, Dave was a senior director at Oracle and has held senior management and technical positions at Gupta Corp., CRI Inc., Atherton Technology, Apollo Computer and Ford Aerospace. Canelis earned his bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from California State University at Hayward and has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Santa Clara.

Gachot joins Qlusters as vice president of worldwide sales to expand global operations. Most recently, Gachot was senior vice president for sales and marketing at ePeople. Previously, as senior vice president of international operations for Actuate, Olivier grew international operations from less than $100,000 in revenue to a 130-person, $38 million business in four years. Gachot also served as the CEO of CosmosBay in Boston and president and COO of Decalog. Starting his sales career in Europe with DEC, Gachot then progressed to sales management at Sybase, and subsequently served as vice president of European operations for Interleaf. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in management information systems from the University of Rouen in France.

Gallagher brings to Qlusters 14 years of high tech alliance and business development experience. In his new capacity, Gallagher will be responsible for initiating strategic partnerships that will assist in the exponential growth of Qlusters market leadership position. Gallagher joins Qlusters from VMware, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation, where he was responsible for worldwide software alliances. At VMware, he successfully established 15 strategic software alliances in six quarters. Previously, Gallagher was at Seagate Technology in a number of senior management positions, most recently as vice president of worldwide channels and business development for Seagate's XIOtech subsidiary. Gallagher holds a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics and a master's of business administration degree from Stanford University.

Lubet brings to Qlusters over 15 years of industry experience at both established and emerging companies. As vice president of worldwide marketing, she is responsible for Qlusters' strategic, product, field and corporate marketing. Lubet was previously vice president of product marketing at PeopleSoft, where she conceived and launched the PeopleSoft AppConnect product suite, driving the company's entrance into the business process integration space. Prior to PeopleSoft, Lubet spent 7 years at Oracle where, as senior director of database product marketing, she was responsible for marketing Oracle's $2.5 billon database family of products, and led the launch of Oracle8i. In addition, Lubet has also served as senior vice president of products and marketing for start-ups SoftwareMarkets, Blue Pumpkin and Confluent, and held several software management positions at Apple Computer. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer sciences from Universita degli Sudi di Torino in Italy.

About Qlusters

Founded in 2001, Qlusters provides software to intelligently manage the Linux datacenter. With Qlusters, IT operates as a utility, achieving lower operational costs, providing faster response to change and attaining predictable quality of service. Global 500 corporations use Qlusters software to leverage their Linux standardization investments, virtualize their IT environments and automate operations. Qlusters partners with leading vendors including HP, IBM, Intel, Rackable Systems and Red Hat. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Qlusters has subsidiaries in London and Israel. For more information, please visit www.qlusters.com.