Ex-MySQL chief Marten Mickos lands new CEO job

19.03.2010
Due to a reporting error, Friday's story "Ex-MySQL chief Marten Mickos lands new CEO job" provided an incorrect year for when Sun Microsystems bought MySQL. It was 2008, not 1998. The sixth paragraph has been corrected on the wire and now reads:

Mickos was CEO of MySQL for seven years. He helped grow the company into the most widely used open-source database before selling MySQL to Sun in 2008. Sun was later acquired by Oracle, prompting much hand-wringing among MySQL users about whether the open-source database will continue to thrive.