Nokia Foundation has granted its 2006 award to
Marten Mickos for his merits in advancing the use of Open Source
technology and for his inspirational leadership of an international
software company.The
EUR 10,000 award was presented at the Foundation’s scholarship awards
ceremony on November 22, when the Foundation celebrated its 12th year
of operation.Marten
Mickos has strong merits in the leadership positions of international
high-tech companies. Since 2001, he has been CEO of the Open Source
company, MySQL. Mickos is known as a strong advocate of the Open Source
community and MySQL has been at the forefront of developing successful
business around open source. Mickos is a popular key-note speaker at
international technology events where his opinions about
commercializing and inspiring innovation are noted and discussed
widely.Source: Nokia PR
Congradulations to Marten, I didn’t know Nokia was this much into open source applications. Then again Linus Torvalds is from Finland.