PHPEverywhere (now at it's new location - see this post for more information) has a new interesting bit pulled from a message on one of the PHP newsgroups concerning their use of PHP 5.

Sterling Hughes writes: Perhaps we should try running php.net and zend.com on php5 before we release? if we're not even eating our own dogfood yet, it seems premature to release.

The opponents immediately replied, stating that having php.net running PHP 5 isn't a pre-requisite for a release. Sterling, however, stood by his idea, following up with a note that it's not about PHP 5 making php.net run better but more about simply making PHP 5 run better before the full release.

John Lim comments: Even if this is not a question of stability that is dogging PHP5, but one of porting and backward compatibility, surely moving zend.com or php.net to PHP5 will make an excellent test and persuasive case-study.