MySQL names marketing chief
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LAS VEGAS--Zack Urlocker has taken over as vice president of marketing at MySQL, a seller of an open-source database of the same name, the company said Tuesday at the Comdex trade show here. Previously, Urlocker managed worldwide marketing for M7, a company that sells software for developing Web software.
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MySQL customers include Yahoo, Lucent Technologies, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Motorola, NASA, Hewlett-Packard and Xerox.