2 posts and columns on Mårten Mickos

Former MySQL Chief Mickos Is Joining Eucalyptus

in News on March 19, 2010 at 1:00 pm PT

Managers who have built significant businesses from open-source software have tended to be rare. That’s why the computer industry has been wondering about the next move for Marten Mickos, who led the Swedish database company MySQL and sold it in 2008 to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion.

Former MySQL Boss to EC: Approve Oracle-Sun Deal

in News on October 9, 2009 at 7:32 am PT

Though he resigned earlier this year, former MySQL boss Mårten Mickos still has strong opinions about the open-source database outfit, which was acquired by Sun in 2008. In a letter to the European Commission Thursday, Mickos urged regulators to green-light Oracle’s takeover of Sun, arguing that to delay it will only harm competition.
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