Kaj Sigurd Ademar Arnö (born 29 June 1963 in

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) is a

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

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since 2006. He is the former Vice President of the MySQL Community at

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and

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

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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; 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

. 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 ori ...

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

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

References

External links

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

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(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