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Arjen Lentz was employee#25 at MySQL AB, responsible for the MySQL Manual (2001-2004), global Community Relations (2004-2006), MySQL Users Conference (2005-2006), teaching MySQL Training courses (2001-2007), and MySQL Support Engineering (2006-2007). Arjen also co-authored the upcoming 2nd edition of O'Reilly's High Performance MySQL book. Originally he is a C programmer, with coding experience going back to the early 80s.

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Arjen founded Open Query in September 2007.

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Jonathon Coombes founded Cybersite Consulting in 1997, providing a range of services. More recently Cybersite has focused on enterprise data management using open source tools and knowledge.

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