Michael Widenius, widely known as Monty, is a Finnish software programmer born in 1962. He is the main author of the original version of the open source MySQL database and a founding member of the company MySQL AB. He later became a founding member of the MariaDB Foundation and chief technology officer of the MariaDB Company, and he is also a founder and general partner of the venture capital firm OpenOcean. His work places him at the center of the history of open source database software.
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is a Finnish software programmer
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created in 1995 by David Axmark and Michael Widenius
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