 No. 12 Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL
Last year's position: Not placed
Not just another open source upstart, Marten Mickos wins a spot on the list for taking on the database industry - and living to tell the tale. And it's not like he's on life support - MySQL is among the most popular open source databases.
Mickos knows how to negotiate, too. Drawing on experience as CEO at MatchON Sports and Intellitel Communications, he smartly resolved disputes between his company and the open source community without alienating the GPL folks.
For all this he's won the ultimate proof of success: attention from the database big boys such as Microsoft and Oracle (a company whose CEO is noticeably absent from this year's list). Our panel bets Mickos' plans for the future will only continue to cause waves.
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