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Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of... [19 Nov 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database company, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. [01 Oct 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12 months after it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. One of the Agenda Setters judges... [29 Sep 2009]
Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy
News MySQL CEO Marten Mickos will join Sun's senior executive team after the transaction closes. Mickos had previously said the company intends to go public rather than be acquired. Sun... [16 Jan 2008]
Oracle made a move on MySQL
News MySQL chief executive Marten Mickos confirmed the acquisition attempt in an interview at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco but wouldn't provide details such as when the approach was... [16 Feb 2006]
Oracle snaffles up MySQL's buddy
News MySQL CEO Marten Mickos said: "The beauty of open source software and the GPL licence is freedom. Mickos noted that customers can choose different database storage engines to run with... [11 Oct 2005]
Red Hat doffs its cap at developers
News Marten Mickos, chief executive of open source-database company MySQL, said at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, also in Boston, that it can be difficult for open source software companies to balance... [22 Feb 2005]
MySQL CEO: "We're as greedy as anyone else"
Comment MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is unsurprised by the recent rise of commercially viable open-source companies such as his own. We're as greedy as anyone else," Mickos said. In 1997, though,... [22 Nov 2004]
MySQL to Oracle: "They should be concerned about us"
News It's a daunting task by any measure but MySQL chief executive Marten Mickos appears anything but intimidated. You can read more about MySQL and Marten Mickos in... [22 Nov 2004]
Leader: Our election, your vote against Microsoft?
Leader The readers' top 10 included Bernard C Soriano (3), the man who recommended to Governor Schwarzenegger that Caifornia use open-source software; Marten Mickos (4), CEO of MySQL, the company behind the... [04 Nov 2004]
Jobs trumps Torvalds in 'popular vote'
News Bernard Soriano, technology task force leader for the State of California, came third (4.5 per cent), Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL and another open source pioneer, came fourth (3.5 per cent) and Bill... [04 Nov 2004]
BBC's Highfield beats Jobs as top man in tech
News Along with Torvalds at 7, we have MySQL CEO Marten Mickos making his debut at 12, Open Source Risk Management's Daniel Egger at 37, Red Hat engineer Mark J Cox at 40 and free software advocate Richard... [27 Sep 2004]
Entrepreneurs 2000-2002: The 'Where are they now?' file (II)
Comment Marten Mickos This entrepreneur proved hard to get hold of for this feature as he seemed to be permanently in the air on his way to the US or Russia or somewhere else as CEO of MySQL.com, producer of the... [18 Apr 2002]
