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Tim O'Reilly Interviews Monty Widenius & Brian Aker

Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Michael Widenius (Monty Program Ab), Brian Aker (MySQL)
9:45am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Average rating: ***..
(3.38, 21 ratings)

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Tim O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. His original business plan was “interesting work for interesting people,” and that’s worked out pretty well. He publishes books, runs conferences, invests in early-stage startups, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators.

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Michael Widenius

Monty Program Ab

Founder of MySQL AB. Original author & architect of the MySQL server. Founder and CEO of Monty Program Ab and creator of MariaDB. Founder of the Open Database Alliance and Open Ocean Capital (an investment company)

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Brian Aker

MySQL

Brian Aker is the Director of Technology for MySQL. At MySQL he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunies to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and Telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.

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