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How do you solve a problem like MariaDB? Cozy up to the community, says new CEO
The new CEO of MariaDB (Plc) says he wants closer-knit collaboration with the foundation behind the eponymous open source database project. He cites the
MySQL is the popular open source relational database management system created by Michael “Monty” Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson back in the mid-’90s, who sold the commercial company behind the project to Sun Microsystems for$1 billion in 2008. But after MariaDB appointed a new CEO and executive team last May, relations thawed, Arnö noting at the time that the Plc and the Foundation were “rebooting their entire relationship” with shared goals centered around cooperation and openness. De Souza has a strong record in the enterprise realm, having previously worked at Intel, SAP, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, and most recently Micro Focus, where he was a senior executive through its$6 billion acquisition by OpenText.
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