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Kaj Sigurd Ademar Arnö (born 29 June 1963 in Helsinki, Finland) is VP of the MySQL Community at MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. He joined MySQL AB as VP of Training in May 2001 and subsequently served in roles as VP Consulting, VP Services, VP Engineering and VP Community Relations till February 2008, when Sun bought MySQL AB. He served as VP of the MySQL Community in the Database Group at Sun Microsystems until June 2010, when the German subsidiary of Sun was integrated into Oracle.[1] In October, he announced his retirement from Oracle.[2]

Prior to joining MySQL AB, Kaj was an entrepreneur and the main owner of Polycon Ab where he served as CEO from 1987 to 2001. Arnö was the main spokesperson towards the MySQL community from 2005 onwards, as well as a frequent speaker at MySQL events.[3]

Other work

A passionate runner, Arnö has condensed his philosophy of running into what he labels as Runnism, the Religion of Running.[4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/07/mysql_veteran_leaves_sunoracle/
  2. ^ http://blogs.arno.fi/isit/2010/10/03/thank-you-everyone-behind-mysql-ab/
  3. ^ http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/
  4. ^ http://www.runnism.com/
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