Michael “Monty” Widenius is the original author of MySQL and a co-founder of MySQL AB, the company that developed it until Sun Microsystems acquired it in 2008. After leaving Sun in 2009 he founded Monty Program Ab and started MariaDB, a community-developed fork of MySQL by many of its original developers. He has served as CTO of the MariaDB Foundation and remains one of the most visible advocates for keeping the MySQL lineage open source.
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