On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jim Jagielski wrote: > On Nov 17, 2003, at 2:22 PM, Bill Stoddard wrote: > > > > In this economic environment (and perhaps this will turn out to be > > generally true from now on), companies are not making investments in > > IT unless they can get a proven and almost immediate return on that > > investment. Making the jump to Apache 2.0 -can- be a big investment > > (depending on how many custom/third party modules you use) > > Most people with those big investments are using at least *some* 3rd > party > modules. Having a 1.4 that is not binary compatible with 1.3 > means that those 3rd party modules will need to be (at least) > re-compiled for 1.4. So they will need to worry about 1.3, > 1.4 and 2.0 (and potentially 2.2)... That's an *awful* lot > to have people keep track of. I don't see companies out > there wanting to do that... they will maintain their 1.3 > modules for awhile, and their 2.x ones, because it *is* > the next gen, but I think they would avoid 1.4 almost > totally. > > Having 1.4 not be binary compatible with 1.3 severely limits its > usefulness to those exact people that it's supposed to be > helping.
As someone working in a company like that, I can tell you definitively that this is not true. At least not here at the biggest web company in the world. -Rasmus
