Mårten Mickos is a Finnish business executive who served as CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 until the company’s acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2008, a deal valued at about $1 billion. Under his leadership MySQL grew into the most widely used open source database and became a showcase for the dual-licensing open source business model. After leaving Sun he went on to lead the cloud software company Eucalyptus Systems and later the bug bounty platform HackerOne, and he remains a frequent speaker on open source business.
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