From Askmonty.org

Monty Program Ab was founded by Michael "Monty" Widenius, the founder and creator of MySQL. Monty Program is a center of engineering excellence for MariaDB, the Maria storage engine, MySQL, and other associated technologies. We are a founding member of the Open Database Alliance, a consortium of companies that provide best-of-breed support and services to mission critical database deployments.

Monty Program Ab currently has 17 employees. More than half of our staff are full-time developers, including some of the original MySQL engineers, some new personnel, and Monty. We have a better knowledge of the core MySQL code than any other company! We are well funded and all of our plans and strategies take a long-term view.

Our main areas of focus are:

• MariaDB, a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, including the Maria storage engine. Our ambition is to make this the best open and free MySQL branch for the MySQL user and developer communities. MariaDB is available under the terms of the GPL v2 license, just like MySQL.
• We do NRE (Non-recurring engineering) work on the MySQL server and help companies with some of the challenges with open source. See our Commercial offerings.
• The Maria engine, a transactional storage engine for MySQL.
• We work with the developers in the MySQL community to create a better MySQL server by using agile and open development that encourages community participation. See Working with the community and Contributing.
• Networking with other companies and communities and community members that are doing development on MySQL.
• Providing a fun and safe workplace for engineers who know MySQL/MariaDB.
• Following and endorsing the hacking business model, which is the basis for our company rules.
• We are the driving part of The Open Database Alliance
• We also offer comprehensive 24/7 support for your MariaDB and MySQL deployments

If you want to be part of developing MariaDB or Maria, join the maria-developers team or visit us on IRC.

We are also interested in working with and investing in disruptive technology start-up companies that do Open Source and community products. This is done through our investment company Open Ocean S.á.r.l

Contact Information

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Our mailing address is:

Daalintie 14
04360 Tuusula
Finland

Phone: +358 9 3868599
Phone hours: 10.00 - 22.00 GMT+2

For engineering work, please email: s a l e s (at) a s k m o n t y (dot) o r g

If you are searching for a job, email us at: j o b s (at) a s k m o n t y (dot) o r g

Our privacy policy can be found here.