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Clash of the Database Egos
Michael (Monty) Widenius, CTO & Co-founder, MySQL AB
Mikael Ronström, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB
Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB
Heikki Tuuri, Vice President, server technology, Innobase Oy
Ari Valtanen, Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Solid Information Technology
Paul Whittington, Founder and Chief Architect, NitroSecurity, Inc.
Mike Smith, IBM
![Eben Moglen](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/472865446_64126a8cbe_m.jpg)
Eben Moglen
![Bdale Garbee](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/472877397_ac99c99363_m.jpg)
Bdale Garbee