Mårten Mickos, MySQL and Eucalyptus

Mårten Mickos was the CEO of MySQL AB, was senior vice president of the database group at Sun Microsystems, is a member of the board of Mozilla Messaging and RightScale, and Entrepreneur In Residence at Benchmark Capital. Currently he is CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company behind the Eucalyptus open source cloud infrastructure.

Mårten has been at the forefront of the open source business world and has been faced with the responsibility of balancing the corporate interests of an organization with the participatory interests of a community. This provides him with unique insight into how others in a similar position can face this equilibrium, too.

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