Php 5 3 Adoption
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The document discusses surveys of PHP developers about adoption of PHP 5.3. It found that most developers wait for binary packages from distributions like Debian/Ubuntu before upgrading, and the majority had not adopted PHP 5.3 yet or found issues when trying it. It suggests providing official PHP binaries could accelerate upgrades, understanding early adopter problems could reduce rejections, and releasing updates like 5.3.1 sooner could drive more upgrades.
Php 5 3 Adoption
- 1. PHP 5.3 Adoption Stuart Herbert [email protected] blog.stuartherbert.com/php/
- 2. Contents • Approach Used • Responses Gathered • What Does It Mean? • What Can We Do About It?
- 3. Contents • Approach Used • Responses Gathered • What Does It Mean? • What Can We Do About It?
- 4. Contents • Approach Used • Responses Gathered • What Does It Mean? • What Can We Do About It?
- 5. Contents • Approach Used • Responses Gathered • What Does It Mean? • What Can We Do About It?
- 6. Approach
- 7. Method • Questions asked to the online PHP community - blog and twitter • Answers gathered via twtpoll • Before / after questions to gauge intent vs action • Analysis to compare intent vs action
- 8. Method • Questions asked to the online PHP community - blog and twitter • Answers gathered via twtpoll • Before / after questions to gauge intent vs action • Analysis to compare intent vs action
- 9. Method • Questions asked to the online PHP community - blog and twitter • Answers gathered via twtpoll • Before / after questions to gauge intent vs action • Analysis to compare intent vs action
- 10. Method • Questions asked to the online PHP community - blog and twitter • Answers gathered via twtpoll • Before / after questions to gauge intent vs action • Analysis to compare intent vs action
- 11. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 12. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 13. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 14. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 15. The Limitations • Different responders from survey to survey • No quality control over how responders understood the questions • No data on demographics of responders • No quality control over whether responders are decision makers or not
- 16. The Limitations • Different responders from survey to survey • No quality control over how responders understood the questions • No data on demographics of responders • No quality control over whether responders are decision makers or not
- 17. The Limitations • Different responders from survey to survey • No quality control over how responders understood the questions • No data on demographics of responders • No quality control over whether responders are decision makers or not
- 18. The Limitations • Different responders from survey to survey • No quality control over how responders understood the questions • No data on demographics of responders • No quality control over whether responders are decision makers or not
- 19. The Responses
- 20. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 21. When? Not until $distro ships binary packages 5% 5% Within 3 months of release 20% 8% Within 6 months of release As soon as it comes out 11% When $hostingCompany supports it 17% Not until we have to Not until $customer needs it 17% PHP 5.3 isn’t very interesting for me 17% 810 votes cast
- 22. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 23. Where? Debian Ubuntu Server Whatever $hostingCompany provides 1% 2%2% 2%2% RedHat / CentOS / Fedora 3% 24% 5% Solaris / OpenSolaris Other Linux 11% Other Whatever $customer chooses 18% OS X Leopard Server 15% Windows Server 2008 15% Other Windows Windows Server 2003 514 votes cast
- 24. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 25. How? 1% 5%4% Binary packages from $distro 6% Build from source Windows binary packages from php.net 43% Binary packages from Zend 15% $hostingCompany handles this Other I don’t need no stinkin’ PHP 5.3 26% 387 votes cast
- 26. The Questions • When will you be moving to PHP 5.3? • What server o/s will you use PHP 5.3 on? • Where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? • Have you adopted PHP 5.3 yet?
- 27. But Did You? :) My $distro doesn’t support it yet 3% 1% 2% 6% I tried, but it wasn’t ready for production use 7% 33% Waiting for PHP 5.3.1 PHP 5.2 is just fine, thanks Yes ... and I’m loving it! My $hostingCompany doesn’t support it yet 23% Other My $customer cannot host it yet 25% An amazing 1330 votes cast
- 28. What Does It Mean?
- 29. Before Release: When Percentage Adopting within 6 months 51 Waiting for someone to supply it 31 Waiting until they have to 13 0 12 24 36 48 60
- 30. Before Release: Where Percentage Debian / Ubuntu 42 RedHat 15 Solaris 11 Chosen for them 17 Windows Server 3 0 10 20 30 40 50
- 31. Before Release: How Approx Percentage Linux distros 43 Build for themselves 26 Demand on Windows 15 Deployed on Windows 3 Zend has room to grow 6 0 10 20 30 40 50
- 32. After Release Percentage Haven’t tried PHP 5.3 yet 69 Tried PHP 5.3 but not happy 25 Adopted PHP 5.3 6 0 17.5 35.0 52.5 70.0
- 33. After Release Percentage Cannot Adopt Yet 63 Will Not Adopt Yet 30 0 20 40 60 80
- 34. Summary
- 35. What Have We Learned? • Debian / Ubuntu the dominant platform • Most developers wait for someone to provide them with working binary packages • Vast majority cannot or will not adopt quickly • Many of those who did adopt not happy
- 36. What Have We Learned? • Debian / Ubuntu the dominant platform • Most developers wait for someone to provide them with working binary packages • Vast majority cannot or will not adopt quickly • Many of those who did adopt not happy
- 37. What Have We Learned? • Debian / Ubuntu the dominant platform • Most developers wait for someone to provide them with working binary packages • Vast majority cannot or will not adopt quickly • Many of those who did adopt not happy
- 38. What Have We Learned? • Debian / Ubuntu the dominant platform • Most developers wait for someone to provide them with working binary packages • Vast majority cannot or will not adopt quickly • Many of those who did adopt not happy
- 39. What Else Have We Learned? • Hosting companies and customer choices only affect a small number of developers (4% of actual deployments) • Windows Server not yet an important platform for developers (3% of deployments) • Zend has surprisingly small market share (6% of planned deployments) • Are these opportunities, or a wake-up call?
- 40. What Else Have We Learned? • Hosting companies and customer choices only affect a small number of developers (4% of actual deployments) • Windows Server not yet an important platform for developers (3% of deployments) • Zend has surprisingly small market share (6% of planned deployments) • Are these opportunities, or a wake-up call?
- 41. What Else Have We Learned? • Hosting companies and customer choices only affect a small number of developers (4% of actual deployments) • Windows Server not yet an important platform for developers (3% of deployments) • Zend has surprisingly small market share (6% of planned deployments) • Are these opportunities, or a wake-up call?
- 42. What Else Have We Learned? • Hosting companies and customer choices only affect a small number of developers (4% of actual deployments) • Windows Server not yet an important platform for developers (3% of deployments) • Zend has surprisingly small market share (6% of planned deployments) • Are these opportunities, or a wake-up call?
- 43. What Can We Do About It? • Official PHP.net binaries might drive earlier adoption of new releases • Better understanding of early adopter issues would reduce the rejection rate in future • Does the .0 release need to be released sooner, to gain wider testing than QA releases do? • Get the .1 release out and into the hands of users sooner to drive the second wave of adopters
- 44. What Can We Do About It? • Official PHP.net binaries might drive earlier adoption of new releases • Better understanding of early adopter issues would reduce the rejection rate in future • Does the .0 release need to be released sooner, to gain wider testing than QA releases do? • Get the .1 release out and into the hands of users sooner to drive the second wave of adopters
- 45. What Can We Do About It? • Official PHP.net binaries might drive earlier adoption of new releases • Better understanding of early adopter issues would reduce the rejection rate in future • Does the .0 release need to be released sooner, to gain wider testing than QA releases do? • Get the .1 release out and into the hands of users sooner to drive the second wave of adopters
- 46. What Can We Do About It? • Official PHP.net binaries might drive earlier adoption of new releases • Better understanding of early adopter issues would reduce the rejection rate in future • Does the .0 release need to be released sooner, to gain wider testing than QA releases do? • Get the .1 release out and into the hands of users sooner to drive the second wave of adopters
- 47. Thank You For Reading Stuart Herbert [email protected] blog.stuartherbert.com/php/