Thanks, but I have to be a little more cautious than that. While I'm sure lots of people don't read the release notes, the idea that so many people would be surprised by behavior changes in the newest version makes me think there are probably other issues yet to be uncovered. It also makes me wonder about the whole "voting" process when determining if something is a release. What was the time period between .10 and .12? Three weeks? Which "vote" shouldn't have happened, then? The .10 or the .12? What are the odds we'll see a .13 or .14 next week, also termed "release"?
I'm not arguing or debating, just trying to illustrate how the traffic on the list in the last couple of weeks might make someone a little wary of using anything beyond 4.0.5 in a critical situation. I would say the majority of those of us in production situations do not have 100% management buy-in on open source...it takes a huge effort to overcome the momentum that traditional commercial software has, and any glitch, no matter how small, can set that effort back quite a ways. Most administrators don't have the luxury of doing server component upgrades more than once or twice a month, either. I know I'd have some questions to answer if I had used my maintenance window to go with .10 only to have my boss find out 2 weeks later that I should be running .12 because its the latest (especially in a security-fix scenario), and the next maintenance window is weeks away. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Glenn Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:19 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: How many people are using 4.1.12 successfully? > > > The discussion regarding Tomcat 4.1.12 was not related to its > stability. > I have been using Tomcat 4.1.x in production for over 6 months > (but still with Jasper1), and recently upgraded to Jasper 2. > > IMHO, Tomcat 4.1.x is a much better container for production > than 4.0.x. > > All of the issues raised were about some minor differences in > behaviour. > Not about stability. Tomcat 4.1.x has been rock solid for me > in production > on a site that heavily uses JSP pages and has >500k page > views per month. > > Install and test your app in Tomcat 4.1.12. Your app and > config may not > even notice the difference, or at most there may be a couple of issues > to resolve. > > And if you use JSP with custom tags Jasper2 can really > improve performance. > > Regards, > > Glenn > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
