was founded in 2009 by the Monty Program and Percona. According to its first announcement, "the Open Database Alliance will comprise a collection of companies working together to provide the software, support and services for MariaDB, an enterprise-grade, community-developed branch of MySQL". Personal life Widenius lives in Kauniainen, Finland with his second wife Anna and his youngest daughter, Maria. Widenius has three children – My, Max, and Maria – who inspired the names for MySQL, MaxDB and the MySQL-Max distribution, and MariaDB. References External links askmonty.org iTWire interview Swedish-speaking Finns Free software programmers 1962 births Living people Businesspeople from Helsinki Finnish computer programmers Technology company founders Aalto University alumni