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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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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

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In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab). Time Wounds All Heels.