David Axmark

{{short description|Swedish computer expert & businessman (born 1962)}}

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| caption = David Axmark at the MySQL Users Conference, 2006

| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1962|05|28}}

| birth_place = Sweden

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| occupation = Co-Founder of MySQL AB

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David Axmark, born 28 May 1962 in Sweden, is one of the founders of MySQL AB and a developer of the free database server, MySQL. He has been involved with MySQL development from its beginning along with the fellow co-founder Michael Widenius. He studied at Uppsala University between 1980 and 1984 {{cite web|title=Doldisen som blev mångmiljonär|url=http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/doldisen-som-blev-mangmiljonar/|publisher=Expressen|accessdate=2 July 2014|language=Swedish}}

David has been involved with free software since 1980 and has said he is committed to developing a successful business model using free open source software. During early 2010 David made a Series A financing for OrangeHRM, "The World's Most Popular Open Source Human Resource Management Software".

David is a director at OrangeHRM.

{{cite web

|publisher=MySQL AB

|title=MySQL AB Management Team

|url=http://www.mysql.com/company/management.html

|accessdate=2008-01-10

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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080223074057/http://www.mysql.com/company/management.html

|archivedate=February 23, 2008

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On 4 December 2012, David Axmark, together with the other MySQL founders, Michael "Monty" Widenius and Allan Larsson, announced the MariaDB Foundation.{{cite web

|publisher = MariaDB Foundation

|title = MariaDB Foundation to Safeguard Leading Open Source Database

|url = https://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-foundation-to-safeguard-leading-open-source-database/

|accessdate = 14 July 2013

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130906210407/http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-foundation-to-safeguard-leading-open-source-database/

|archive-date = 6 September 2013

|url-status = dead

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