MySQL Workbench has been developed by a small team of great developers at MySQL AB (and later Sun Microsystems Inc.), starting from a personal project of project/team lead Mike Zinner (DBDesigner 4).
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Alfredo Kojima		<kojima@sun.com> - backend, Linux, Mac OS X, lead developer
Mike Lischke		<mike.lischke@sun.com> - backend, Windows, Mac OS X, UI, testing
Alexander Musienko		<alex.musienko@sun.com> - Windows, synchronization, backup/restore, testing
Johannes Taxacher		<johannes.taxacher@sun.com> - QA, building, testing
Sergei Tkachenko		<sergei.tkachenko@sun.com> - Windows, parser, SQL IDE
Maksym Yehorov		<maksym.yehorov@sun.com> - Linux, Administration
Mike Zinner		<mike.zinner@sun.com> - team lead, UI design
