Kaj Sigurd Ademar Arnö (born 29 June 1963 in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

) is a

Finland-Swedish Finland Swedish or Fenno-Swedish (; ) is a Variety (linguistics), variety of the Swedish language and a closely related group of Swedish dialects spoken in Finland by the Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Swedish-speaking population, common ...

IT-entrepreneur and columnist. He is since 2016 (also) a German citizen and has lived in

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

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 a ...

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed sig ...

and

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...

, founder of MariaDB Corporation Ab and the current CEO of the

MariaDB Foundation MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported Fork (software development), fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Developm ...

Biography

Education

Arnö went to the Swedish co-educational school Nya svenska samskolan. He studied physics at the

Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; ; , HUT in international usage) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and it was one of the three universities from which the modern d ...

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

. 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, a company that sold support and consultancy for MySQL and

MariaDB MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported Fork (software development), fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Developm ...

, which later became MariaDB Corporation Ab. Since 2019, Arnö has been the CEO of

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 since 2021.

Other work

Arnö has condensed his philosophy of

running Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion by which humans and other animals move quickly on foot. Running is a gait with an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground (though there are exceptions). This is in contrast to walkin ...

into what he calls "Runnism, the Religion of Running".

References

External links

Kaj Arnö
in Åbo Underrättelser (Finland's oldest newspaper)
Kaj Arnö
in

Svenska Yle Svenska Yle ( English: ''Swedish Yle'') is the Swedish-language department of Yle, Finland's public service broadcaster for TV, radio and the web. As Finland is constitutionally bilingual—around 5.5% of the population speaks Swedish as their n ...

(Swedish public broadcasting in Finland)
Kaj Arnö
in Forum för ekonomi och teknik (business magazine)
kajarno.fi
Kaj Arnö's home page
mariadb.org
MariaDB Foundation's home page {{DEFAULTSORT:Arno, Kaj Living people 1963 births Aalto University alumni Businesspeople from Helsinki Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish emigrants to Germany Naturalized citizens of Germany