Michael Widenius

About Michael Widenius and his experiences and achievements in his life.

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2. About Michael Widenius Ulf Michael Widenius  (often called Monty; born 3 March 1962, in Helsinki, Finland) is the main author of the original version of the open source  MySQL  database, a founding member of the  MySQL AB company and CTO of the  MariaDB  Corporation AB. Additionally, he is a founder and general partner at venture capital firm OpenOcean .

3. Early Years After dropping out of Helsinki University of Technology, Widenius started working for Tapio Laakso   Oy  in 1981. In 1985 he founded TCX DataKonsult  AB (a Swedish data warehousing company) with Allan Larsson. In 1995 he began writing the first version of the MySQL database with David Axmark , released in 1996. He is the co-author of the  MySQL Reference Manual , published by O'Reilly in June 2002; and in 2003 he was awarded the Finnish Software Entrepreneur of the Year prize.

4. Until MySQL AB's sale to Sun Microsystems in 2008, he was the chief technical offi cer   of MySQL AB and still one of the prim ary forces behind the ongoing dev elopm ent of MySQL . MySQL sold to Sun Widenius sold MySQL to Sun in January 2008, earning about €16.6 millio n in capital gains in 2008 (€16.8 million total in c ome), making him one of the top 10 highest earners in Finland that year.

5. After Sun In 2008, Widenius established venture capital firm OpenOcean with MySQL co-founder Patrik Backman and early advisors Tom Henriksson and Ralf Wahlsten . On 5 February 2009, he announced that he was leaving Sun in order to create his own company. On 12 December 2009, Monty asked MySQL customers to lobby the European Commission (EC), regarding Oracle's acquisition of Sun, citing concerns about potential Oracle control of MySQL ; this resulted in an online petition campaign called "Save MySQL ".

6. After leaving Sun, he formed Monty Program AB and forked MySQL into  MariaDB , named after his youngest daughter, Maria. It includes several patches and plugins developed by the company itself or the community. One of these plugins is the Aria storage engine, which was renamed from Maria to avoid confusion with  MariaDB . Monty Program AB merged with SkySQL , who later renamed themselves MariaDB Corporation. He is also CTO of the MariaDB Foundation, the non-profit organisation charged with promoting, protecting and advancing the MariaDB codebase, community, and ecosystem.

7. The Open Database Alliance, also known as ODBA, was founded in 2009 by the Monty Program and  Percona . According to its first announcement, "the Open Database Alliance will comprise a collection of companies working together to provide the software, support and services for MariaDB , an enterprise-grade, community-developed branch of MySQL ".

8. MariaDB Corporation ( 8 Years) CTO Jan 2016 - Present5 years Grankulla , Finland Founder and CTO 2012 - Dec 2015 3 years Founder MariaDB Foundation Jan 2016 - Present5 years CEO & VP Community Monty Program Ab Feb 2009 - 2013 (4 years) Developing Maria, a transactional storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB , community developed MySQL server with Maria included. Board member Web of Trust by Against Intuition Inc. 2009 - 2011 (2 years) Experience

9. Chairman ODBA 2009 - 2011 (2 years) Board of Advisors Finsor May 2008 - 2011 (3 years) Working on their Advisory board to help them make sound technical decissions . Founder Open Database Alliance Apr 2009 - Dec 2010 (1 year 9 months) Board member IT Mill Ltd Sep 2008 - 2010 (2 years) MySQL Fellow and Sun DE Sun Microsystems Mar 2008 - Jan 2009 (11 months) Working in Sun CTO Lab under Sun's CTO: Greg Papadopoulos Working on the Maria Storage engine and trying to make Sun an even bigger player in the open source community

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