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Because lots of site owners != all site owners!
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Exactly! Changing over tomorrow would not be good....
Changing with two to three weeks notice would be fine for me. I know it would mean work to get my sites compatible but its got to be done at some point so just let me know when.
Why do I not prepare now? Well unfortunately I have plenty of other jobs on, its justs a question of prioritising. When I have to switch I will do but at present, on mysql 4 the site works and is taking orders so why waste time making modifications that wont have any visible effect for the customers.
For sure I would think that there would be some good money to be made by programmers who could take on the osC work but I think that judging by some of Vgers posts the switch to mysql5 is going to be a bit harder than changing to php5.
With regards to Knapper's post, I agree with all your comments. The latest version of osC is I believe mysql 5 compatible. The trouble is that anyone running osC will have numerous contributions added, many of which will not be mysql 5 compatible and which prevent users from simply upgrading to the latest version.
Really for myself, rather than doing a lot of work on an outdated vesion of osC, I think I would prefer to use the switch over as an excuse to completely redesign my sites from scratch, possibly trying a different solution to osC altogether but again, this depends on time frames.
UH's problem is that they do have a lot of osC sites hosted on their servers. They have a good reputation for hosting osC sites and as such have to take this into consideration when planning the change. NOT for the sake of the responsible site owners who will be ready but to try and avoid the high number of support tickets they recieved after the recent php5 change, although how they can avoid this when 8 months notice is not enough, I really dont know!
Anyhow, just to confirm, I have no problem with a quicker changeover (from UH's new roadmap it isnt going to be till next year anyway). Tomorrow may be a bit soon but I would be fine with a couple of weeks notice. And I can understand how it must be frustrating for anyone not using osC.
Cheers,
Rich