As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open-source company in the world," Benchmark said on its Web site.

Mårten Gustaf Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, is Benchmark Capital's newest Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR). Mickos served as chief executive officer for the open source database company from ...

Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL, according to Richard Stallman, a developer and prominent activist for free software. In a letter Tuesday to European Commissioner for Competition ...

Prominent software activist says Oracle must be prevented from taking control of MySQL, urges Europe's antitrust regulator to demand divestment Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL ...