InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

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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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marten Mickos, Founder of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems echoed Guy’s sentiment in this interview by saying, “We who are entrepreneurs say, ‘This is the best time ever to start a company.’ Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source.

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