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Mårten Mickos strikes back
Mårten Mickos, the CEO of Eucalyptus and former CEO of MySQL AB, will be back on stage as the closing keynoter on September 19th at MySQL Sunday, one of the community events at the start of Oracle Open World 2010.

The opening keynote will be delivered by Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle.

MySQL Sunday has a …

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Mårten Mickos strikes back
Mårten Mickos, the CEO of Eucalyptus and former CEO of MySQL AB, will be back on stage as the closing keynoter on September 19th at MySQL Sunday, one of the community events at the start of Oracle Open World 2010.

The opening keynote will be delivered by Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle.

MySQL Sunday has a …

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Mårten Mickos strikes back
Mårten Mickos, the CEO of Eucalyptus and former CEO of MySQL AB, will be back on stage as the closing keynoter on September 19th at MySQL Sunday, one of the community events at the start of Oracle Open World 2010.

The opening keynote will be delivered by Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle.

MySQL Sunday has a …

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Changing MySQL’s Community Contribution Agreement

A while ago, MySQL developed a Community Contribution Agreement for community contributions to the MySQL source code. While browsing the MySQL Forge Wiki I came across:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Community_Contributions

This page shows that the Community Contribution Agreement has changed — it is no longer the document MySQL AB created. It is now Sun Microsystem’s standard Sun Contributor Agreement, which CEO Mårten Mickos recently explained to me was “more accepted than the agreement MySQL had come up with.”

I am happy to see some of the great Sun practices trickle down to replace some issues that MySQL did not handle smoothly. All in all, I agree with Mårten Mickos and think the Sun Contributor Agreement is much better….

….but what do you think?

Italian Wisdom awaits Marten Mickos

Marten Mickos, former MySQL CEO, now Senior SVP with Sun Microsystems, is expected in Rome, at the local University, called "La Sapienza" (= Wisdom or Knowledge). The event, on May 30, is a mix of private and public occurrences. Marten will meet local customers and Sun officials, before speaking in front of an audience at the University.

More information at the other speakers' blogs. Ivan Zoratti and Giuseppe …

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In a Vortex

In a vortex. That's the only way to describe the past thirty days, during which we closed out our second quarter, and put together the transaction to acquire MySQL. How'd it all start?

"That'll never happen, I've been trying for years." That's what I told Rich Green (EVP, Software at Sun) about six months ago in response to his assertion, "if there were one company I'd love to acquire, it'd be MySQL. They're an amazing company." Why'd I say it was impossible?

For nearly five years, I've been getting together for dinner with Marten Mickos, MySQL's CEO, catching up on the industry, chatting about trends and business models, and just as the dessert was about to be served... I'd say, "geez, we have so much in common, Marten, we …

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