Posted by Tim Roberts on 03/09/06 09:59

"Kimmo Laine" <spam@outolempi.net> wrote:

>"Aziz" <no_spam@spamco.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've recently contacted technical service of a web hosting company and
>> asked them wheter or not they're gonna upgrade to PHP5 and MySQL5. Here's
>> a quote from their response which confused me a little:
>>
>> "As php5 and mysql5 are still beta versions we don't install beta versions
>> on production servers due to secure reasons, we install only current
>> working versions on production servers"
>>
>> As far as I know two products are far away from being Beta releases?
>> Is there any thruth in what they talk about?
>
>They don't know what they are talking about. PHP 5 is far from beta. The
>last PHP 5.0.0 Beta X was released early 2004, and the final php 5.0.0 was
>released in July 2004, see http://fi2.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php . So PHP 5 has
>been in final status for more than a year now, almost two years. Tell those
>people to get their heads out of their asses and shove a beta version
>there... The current and working version of php 5 is 5.1.2.

The same thing is true of MySQL, although it is more recent. The
production release of MySQL 5 was in October, 2005.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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