I am excited to see that MySQL 5.5 GA (5.5.8) has been finally released . All of my ex-colleagues at MySQL/Oracle have done amazing jobs. I was also positively surprised that 5.5 was released on schedule:). So far I have felt that Oracle is leading MySQL development and product management very well. 5.5 has lots of practical features not only for web services providers, but also for enterprise use
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