"All other databases on the market today were designed for an offline, back-office use, " says MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos.

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Marten Mickos, CEO of Southern California cloud-software vendor Eucalyptus Systems Inc.

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Last December ten times as many came and on the stage were plenty of Europeans, including Marten Mickos of MySQL, a maker of databases now owned by Oracle, a software giant, Marc Simoncini, founder of meetic.com, Europe's largest dating site, and Niklas Zennstrom, who started Skype.

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