John Finlay wrote:
I think this has been the biggest reason why PHP 5 has been slow to
adoption. It's not so much that people want to stay with PHP 4 as it is
they haven't been able to find a host that supports PHP 5.
We have been offering php5 for quite some time now, and have had VERY
few people wanting it. Easily under half a percent.
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
I personally think that the slow adoption rate is unacceptable. I
think people are just being lazy. PHP five was released in 2004 and
will no longer be supported at the end of this year. People need to
pony and and just update their code. It's really frustrating, personally.
If you have in-house developers, then by all means, they should have
been on 5 a long time ago. But very few of my clients have that
luxury. Come to think of it, that half a percent I mentioned earlier?
I think most of them have in-house developers or are programmers
themselves. The rest -- the vast majority -- either have sites built by
contractors, or they use programs that are upgradeable, but indeed the
upgrade jumps from one branch to the next that supports php5 are big
projects in themselves.
I think Mac is right on (as usual ;-) -- and I won't go quoting all he's
said cause there's alot of good points). The majority of people we host
are small business owners, and the cost and logistics of overhauling
their sites to accommodate php5 is a problem for them.
So here's a question, if you do php contract work, how much would you
charge to make a person's site php5-worthy? I'm sure it depends on the
site but if you had to ballpark it what would it be? And if you don't
believe in one-off contracting, how much are your long term maintenance
contracts, or what would you expect a business owner to pay for an in
house programmer? I ask both to maybe help you see our clients points
of view, and because we'll probably need to start referring people out.
-V
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