Over on LinuxToday.com today, there's a new article dealing with the introduction of PHP5 and its impact on the PHP community.

Started just over ten years ago, the PHP programming language has become the most popular programming language for web application development. PHP 5, the most recent release, adds even more features--all the while remaining approachable to novices. But don’t let the friendly facade fool you--Fortune 500 companies are taking notice, too. Here’s a look at the life of PHP 5 so far.

In the complete story from Linux Magazine, they talk about the pre-PHP5 days, what people were looking forword to and what they hoped PHP5 would be. They mention some of the "conspiracies" that were happening around that time, including the Java cloneing and unbundling of the MySQL libraries. They do talk about a few more things too, but you'll have to check out the article to see what they are...