David Axmark is a Swedish software developer and one of the three founders of MySQL AB, together with Michael “Monty” Widenius and Allan Larsson. At MySQL AB he led engineering, internal IT, and community relations, and he is widely credited with pushing MySQL toward open source and the GPL. He left Sun Microsystems in 2008, after its acquisition of MySQL, and in 2012 joined the other MySQL founders in announcing the MariaDB Foundation.
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