[consulting] Staying Current

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

> Whatever that figure is, there certainly tens if not hundreds of
> thousands of D5 sites out there, and as mentioned, many of them are
> large sites owned by large entities. My guess is that a very large
> percentage, if not the majority, do not have a strong interest in
> upgrading. That's just my guess.

I highly, highly doubt that this is true. If you are a "large entity"
running a "large site" then you are almost certainly going to update as
often as you need to in order to keep your site alive and healthy. Even
those dinosaurs that refuses to update ie6 are constantly forced to update
almost every other piece of software and hardware, most often around ideas
of EoL and support.

It's the small sites that we're talking about here, really. Any big site
that doesn't update *deserves *whatever bad things happen to their site. If
you can't be bothered to put locks on your house, don't be surprised when
someone breaks in, espescially when your house is accessible from almost
anywhere on earth.

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> >> When D7 gets released, the community will support D7 and D6.
> >>
> >> D5 support will be dropped at that juncture.
> >
> > Who gets to say what "the community" will do?
> >
> > Because Drupal has expanded a lot over recent years and has been adopted
by
> > some big sites - surely there is a stronger argument than in the past
for
> > longer term support.
> >
> > So maybe the existing security team won't take it on - but if there are
> > enough people in the community who do want to support D5 for longer then
I
> > can't see why anyone else in the community would want to prevent this.
>
> I have wondered the same thing. How many more D5 sites are there than
> D4? A factor of 10, 100 or 1000? Very hard to say I think but there
> are a few facts about core downloads at least here
> http://buytaert.net/drupal-download-statistics-2008
>
> Whatever that figure is, there certainly tens if not hundreds of
> thousands of D5 sites out there, and as mentioned, many of them are
> large sites owned by large entities. My guess is that a very large
> percentage, if not the majority, do not have a strong interest in
> upgrading. That's just my guess.
>
> Fred
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