History
- 1995 Company founded by Michael Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson
- 2001 Mårten Mickos elected CEO
- 2001 First round financing by Scandinavian venture capitalists
- 2003 Second round financing by a group of investors headed by Benchmark Capital
- 2003 Partnership agreement concluded with SAP, acquiring the full commercial rights to MaxDB
- 2003 Acquired Alzato, a subsidiary of Ericsson
- 2005 MySQL Network subscription service launched
- 2006 Third round financing by Intel Capital, Red Hat, SAP Ventures, and others
- 2008 Announcement of acquisition by Sun Microsystems
- 2010 Announcement of acquisition by Oracle Corporation
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