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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

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I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. According to Marten, “We enable companies to run, within their own firewall, a cloud that behaves exactly like the public clouds, exactly like Amazon. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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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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By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel HERE by clicking the Subscribe button above the video.

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

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There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. As noted in Now Is Never Too Early , successful entrepreneurs are not inclined to wait. Christy was correct.

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