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BugBrother
on May 25, 2014
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The Nordic region is becoming a hothouse of entrep...
One of the MySQL founders is Finnish, but it was in Sweden. (InnoDB was Finnish, iirc.)
durbin
on May 25, 2014
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Many people consider the Finnish founder, Michael Widenius, to be the main author of MySQL and it was named after his daughter My. I would definitely consider it to be Finnish software at the very least equal to, if not more than, Swedish.
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