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Seattle, WA-based Maria DB Promoted Michael Widenius as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional or analytical use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens – MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it`s the fastest growing open source database. Real business relies on MariaDB™.
About the Person
Michael “Monty” Widenius is the “spiritual father” of MariaDB, a renowned advocate of the open source software movement, and one of the original developers of MySQL, the predecessor to MariaDB. Monty continues to stay involved hands-on in the development of MariaDB. His work in developing and advocating for Free and Open Source Software spans to 1995. Most recently, Monty has served on the boards of MariaDB Corporation and the MariaDB Foundation, the non-profit organization charged with promoting, protecting and advancing the MariaDB codebase, community, and ecosystem, where he was also CTO. He was a founder of SkySQL, and the CTO of MySQL AB until its sale to Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Monty was also the founder of TCX DataKonsult AB (a Swedish data warehousing company). He is the co-author of the MySQL Reference Manual, was awarded in 2003 the Finnish Software Entrepreneur of The Year prize and in 2015 Monty was selected as one of the 100 most influential persons in the Finnish IT market. Monty studied at the Helsinki University of Technology and lives in Finland.
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