On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:30:26 -0700, NC <nc@iname.com> wrote:

>> That's even true for Yahoo.
>
>It should be ESPECIALLY true for Yahoo!. Yahoo! is atypical in that
>it is a hardcore BSD shop (most hosting companies that offer PHP run
>on Linux). So if they ever decide to upgrade their PHP, they have to
>test extra carefully for any BSD-specific problems before upgrading
>their production servers.

For another data point, pair.com run (Free)BSD too, and they just upgraded all
their shared hosting to PHP 5.2.3 (which works nicely).

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