John Koenig writes: At the recent OSBC conference in San Francisco, Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, delivered a thoughtful presentation on the popular topic of software stacks. Mickos used the Swedish word “Lagom,” meaning somewhere in the middle, to define a “well-tempered stack” that can deliver a number of benefits.

Read Koenig’s report on the presentation along with an interview of Marten Mickos on Itmanagersjournal.com.