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MySQL poaches Firebird pioneeer

Martin LaMonica CNET News

Published: 27 Feb 2006 10:30 GMT

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Open source database company MySQL hired well-regarded database engineer Jim Starkey as senior software architect. Starkey is credited with creating the InterBase relational database and has been active in the Firebird Foundation open source database community.

The Firebird database is derived from the InterBase code. MySQL also hired Taneli Otala, who will serve as the company's chief technical officer. MySQL shas seen rapid growth in the past three years with growing interest in open source database. It raised a third round of $18.5m in funding earlier this month.

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