to broken or outdated sources . please improve the article or discuss this issue on the talk page . help on using footnotes is available . november 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message mysql ab former type private company industry computer software genre database software fate acquired successor oracle corporation founded 1995 founder michael widenius david axmark and allan larsson defunct 2008 headquarters uppsala sweden and cupertino california u.s. key people m rten mickos ceo dennis wolf cfo and evp mark c. burton evp sales zack urlocker evp products kaj arn vp open source community relations ulf sandberg svp worldwide services clint smith vp general counsel larry stefonic svp asia pacific kevin harvey chairman allan larsson products mysql mysql cluster number of employees 400 website www.mysql.com mysql ab was a software company that was founded in 1995 . it was acquired by sun microsystems in 2008 ; sun was in turn acquired by oracle corporation in 2010 . mysql ab is the creator of mysql a relational database management system as well as related products such as mysql cluster . the company was dually headquartered in uppsala sweden and cupertino california with offices in other countries paris munich dublin milan and tokyo . with around 400 employees in 25 countries 1 mysql ab was one of the largest open source companies . around 70 % of the employees worked for mysql from their home offices . 2 together with linux apache and php the mysql server forms one of the building blocks of the lamp technology stack . the company claimed over 5 million mysql installations and over 10 million product downloads in 2004 . contents 1 revenue 2 history 3 references 4 external links revenue edit mysql ab representatives are commonly cited as champions of what they claim to be a second generation of open source companies . citation needed the revenues of both first and second generation open source companies usually derive from selling support consulting services and training for their products . what generally distinguishes this second generation of companies such as mysql ab and trolltech from earlier open source business models is dual licensing the software is supplied under an open source license but traditional software licences are also sold by the company that owns the software . as an example mysql ab makes mysql available under the gpl at no charge but sells it under other more traditional licenses to clients who do not find the gpl to be ideal for their purposes such as inclusion of mysql ab technology in a closed source product . other sources of revenue for mysql ab were providing support and consulting as well as training and certification for mysql server . together with some additional services mysql also provided a subscription based product called mysql enterprise which is also resold by other companies such as dell hp and novell . history edit 1995 company founded by michael widenius david axmark and allan larsson 2001 m rten mickos elected ceo 2001 first round financing by scandinavian venture capitalists 2003 second round financing by a group of investors headed by benchmark capital 2003 partnership agreement concluded with sap ag acquiring the full commercial rights to maxdb 2003 acquired alzato a subsidiary of ericsson in february 2005 the mysql network subscription service was announced later called mysql enterprise . 3 a third round of about 18.5 million financing led by institutional venture partners including intel capital red hat sap ventures and others was disclosed in february 2006 . 4 5 on january 16 2008 mysql ab announced that it had agreed to be acquired by sun microsystems for approximately 1 billion . 1 6 7 8 the acquisition completed on 26 february 26 2008 . oracle corporation then acquired sun in 2010 . references edit a b sun to acquire mysql . mysql ab . archived from the original on january 17 2008 . retrieved 2008 01 16 . hyatt josh 2006 05 31 . fortune mysql workers in 25 countries with no hq . fortune magazine . retrieved 2010 05 19 . mysql launches mysql network for corporate enterprises looking to fast track open source database deployment . press release . february 15 2005 . archived from the original on december 30 2005 . retrieved october 9 2016 . mysql ab secures 18.5 million in series c funding ; ivp leads intel capital red hat sap ventures & presidio stx in an investment round to provide for continued enterprise growth for the world s most popular open source database . press release . february 13 2006 . retrieved october 9 2016 . form d notice of sale of securities pdf . us securities and exchange commission . march 16 2006 . retrieved october 9 2016 . jonathan schwartz . helping dolphins fly . blog . sun microsystems . archived from the original on january 17 2008 . retrieved 2008 01 16 . sun acquires mysql . mysql ab . january 16 2008 . archived from the original on january 17 2008 . retrieved 2008 01 16 . mysql blogs sun acquires mysql . archived from the original on january 17 2008 . external links edit free software portal company home page planetmysql retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mysql ab & oldid 743481768 categories companies of swedenfree software companiessun microsystems acquisitionshidden categories articles with broken or outdated citations from november 2015all articles with broken or outdated citationsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2007 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal e tinadeutschespa oleuskarafran aisitalianolietuvi portugu srom n svenska edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 21 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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