Kaj Sigurd Ademar Arnö (born 29 June 1963 in
Helsinki
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,
Finland
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) is a
Finland Swedish
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IT-entrepreneur and columnist. He is since 2016 (also) a German citizen and has lived in
Germany
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since 2006. He is the former Vice President of the MySQL Community at
MySQL AB
MySQL AB was a Swedish software company 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 r ...
,
Sun Microsystems
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and
Oracle Corporation
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, founder of
MariaDB Corporation Ab and the current CEO of the
MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the ori ...
.
Biography
Education
Arnö went to the Swedish co-educational school
Nya svenska samskolan (also known as '','' ), was a Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Swedish-language, co-educational private educational institution in Helsinki, Finland, from 1888 to 1977.
History
was founded in the spring of 1888 as an educational institut ...
.
He studied physics at the
Helsinki University of Technology
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; fi, Teknillinen korkeakoulu; sv, Tekniska högskolan) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded in ...
.
MySQL & MariaDB
Prior to joining MySQL AB, Arnö was the main owner of
Polycon Ab where he served as CEO from 1987 to 2001.
Arnö 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
MySQL AB was a Swedish software company 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 r ...
. Arnö was the main spokesperson towards the MySQL community from 2005 onwards, as well as a frequent speaker at MySQL events. 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. In October 2010, he announced his retirement from Oracle.
In 2010, Arnö was co-founder together with
Michael "Monty" Widenius and others of
SkySQL
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the o ...
, a company that sold support and consultancy for MySQL and
MariaDB
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the ori ...
, which later became
MariaDB Corporation Ab.
Since 2019, Arnö has been the CEO of
MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the ori ...
.
Columnist
Arnö has been a regular columnist in Swedish for
Forum för ekonomi och teknik (2008-2021),
Svenska Yle's culture pages (2015-2021) and
Åbo Underrättelser
''Åbo Underrättelser'' is a Swedish language newspaper published in Turku ( sv, Åbo), Finland.
History and profile
''Åbo Underrättelser'' is the oldest newspaper still in print in Finland, founded by Christian Ludvig Hjelt in 1823. The fir ...
since 2021.
Other work
Arnö has condensed his philosophy of
running
Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. Running is a type of gait characterized by an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground (though there are exceptions). This is ...
into what he calls "Runnism, the Religion of Running".
References
External links
Kaj Arnöin
Åbo Underrättelser
''Åbo Underrättelser'' is a Swedish language newspaper published in Turku ( sv, Åbo), Finland.
History and profile
''Åbo Underrättelser'' is the oldest newspaper still in print in Finland, founded by Christian Ludvig Hjelt in 1823. The fir ...
(Finland's oldest newspaper)
Kaj Arnöin
Svenska Yle (Swedish public broadcasting in Finland)
Kaj Arnöin
Forum för ekonomi och teknik (business magazine)
kajarno.fi Kaj Arnö's home page
mariadb.org MariaDB Foundation's home page
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Living people
1963 births
Aalto University alumni
Businesspeople from Helsinki
Swedish-speaking Finns