IOUC Leaders Summit Presentation

At the recent leaders summit of world leaders in Oracle, Java and MySQL user communities I gave a presentation on Why Upgrade to MySQL 5.5

This is a more high level overview presentation, specifically designed for Oracle resources with little to no knowledge about MySQL, however it provides a great management approach to the consideration of using the current MySQL GA version.

I have a more detailed technical presentation from last year on Reasons to Use MySQL 5.5 .

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