MySQL Workbench has been developed by a small team of great developers in the MySQL group at Oracle Corporation, starting from a personal project of project/team lead Mike Zinner (DBDesigner 4). -- Alfredo Kojima - backend, Linux, Mac OS X, lead developer Mike Lischke - backend, Windows, Mac OS X, UI, testing Alexander Musienko - Windows, synchronization, backup/restore, testing Johannes Taxacher - QA, building, testing Maksym Yehorov - Linux, Administration Mike Zinner - team lead, UI design Sergei Tkachenko - Windows, parser, SQL IDE