Johannes Schl?ter:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 16:07 -0400, (Wietse Venema) wrote:
> > According statistics at nexen.net, PHP4 is now 68% of the installed
> > base (8 years of deployment) and PHP5 is 32% (almost 4 years). The
> > lesson I draw from this is that a major release every couple years
> > would heavily fragment the installed base, and complicate support.
>
> The problem with these stats is that they count the public available
> installation base into account. There are many systems which simply run
> without any change to anything you will find lots of outdated software
> there. I have other stats about systems used when installing some piece
> of software and there PHP 5 is > 60% which is a completely different
> picture. So in summary: Statistics are nice, but not everything.
Whether 30% or 60%, after four years of PHP5 deployment there is
a significant portion of installed base that has not caught up,
hence my concern about fragmentation (I expect that many will agree
that the smaller the PHP4 share, the better).
Wietse
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