Robert Peake has this new post today about the adoption of PHP5 - or the lack thereof.

With the upcoming release of PHP 5.1 beta, I am hoping that the PHP 5 revolution I was promised will finally become more of a reality. The truth is that adoption of PHP 5 (among anyone besides the hardcore PHP geek) seems to be very slow. Perhaps companies are shying away from the .0 release tag, given that web shops depending on PHP don't want to bank on the bleeding edge. But are there other reasons PHP 5 hasn't gone mainstream yet? I think so.

He goes on to talk about the lack of "good marketing" for PHP, as well as the lack of a real sense of what is better about PHP5 (outside of the developers' worlds, of course). He suggests that we can measure when PHP5 has "made it" by the rest of the world - when they package PHP5 in RPMs or ship it with operating systems, then we'll know that enterprise has embraced PHP 5 as fully as can be expected (for now).

PHP 5 has got to come to light. Will adding a .1 do the trick? We shall see.