and it isn't gonna die because of corporate whim or politics, etc. = safe investment for companies,, if it's popular and has a community.

(add to that WordPress which is CMS software built with PHP)

>....about how many BIG company names use PHP. Open source is alive and well so far.
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>>I don't follow Open Source that much, however...It isn't a development tool, but MySpace used to be THE big thing. Where is it today? It CAN happen with dev tools.
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>>>Yeah, but you can't name a popular open source project that has "died". Yet if there is a corporate sponsor (like Microsoft) or a small company with proprietary code, popular products can and do die. Microsoft has no problem trying to kill things left and right because of political whim or some sort of perceived needed strategy. Can't happen in open source. Period.