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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , knows the answer and he delights in telling the story of how MySQL ate Oracle's lunch and dinner. You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. Per Marten, "I joined in 2001, (but) I had known the founders since 1981.

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23 Million Views – Startup Content Goes Mainstream

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Marten Mickos – CEO, Eucalyptus Systems (sold to HP) and CEO, MySQL (sold to Sun Microsystems). “I Marten Mickos has enjoyed a celebrated entrepreneurial career. As an early executive at MySQL, he helped build the company into the world's most used open source database. Becoming a successful entrepreneur isn't.

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