Michael Widenius
Finnish software programmer
Ulf Michael Widenius (born 3 March 1962), also known as Monty, is a Finnish software programmer. He is the main author of the original version of the open source MySQL database, a founding member of the MySQL AB company, founding member of the MariaDB Foundation and CTO of the MariaDB Company.2
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Born Mar 3, 1962.1
About
Additionally, he is a founder and general partner at venture capital firm OpenOcean.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedHelsinki University of Technology3
- Date not recordedLäroverket för gossar och flickor3
Early years
Born in Helsinki, Finland, Widenius went to the co-educational school Broban, which was first merged into Minervaskolan and later to Lönnbeckska gymnasiet. After dropping out of Helsinki University of Technology, Widenius started working for Tapio Laakso Oy in 1981. In 1985 he founded TCX DataKonsult AB (a Swedish data warehousing company) with Allan Larsson. In 1995 he began writing the first version of the MySQL database with David Axmark, released in 1996. He is the co-author of the MySQL Reference Manual, published by O'Reilly in June 2002.
Until MySQL AB's sale to Sun Microsystems in 2008, he was the chief technical officer of MySQL AB. After the acquisition, he remained one of the primary forces behind the ongoing development of MySQL.
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Career
Occupation: engineer, programmer, computer scientist, businessperson, software developer.7
Personal life
Widenius lives in Kauniainen, Finland with his second wife Anna and his youngest daughter, Maria. Widenius has three children – My, Max, and Maria – who inspired the names for MySQL, MaxDB and the MySQL-Max distribution, and MariaDB.
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- 1WikidataMichael Widenius on Wikidata
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- 11WikidataMichael Widenius: X, on Wikidata
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- 15WikidataOpenOcean, Founder
- 16Wikimedia CommonsMichael Widenius photo by SofiaEk, CC BY-SA 4.0