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Well, over 1 million people have signed up as of 24 September or so: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/september/creative-cloud-1-millionth-user

which sounds impressive, until one recalls that for its 20th anniversary, Adobe announced PhotoShop had over 10 million users.

There's also no word on how many of these people have merely signed up for a 30 day free demo / trial.

Adobe's initial estimation was that only one-third or so (~4 million) of their customer base (~12 million) would initially sign up: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/adobes-creative-cloud-gamble-pays-off-handsomely-even-if-q2-earnings-crash-021396.php

So they're still far short of their initial estimate.

An Adobe CEO admitted to the disappointment and a need to tweak things: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/adobe_q2_customers_disappointed_with_no_boxed_wares/

but I've still not seen any change --- just more patches and up-dates. My suspicion is that Adobe planned this a long while ago, identifying the last few product features which would be essential for profitability of users and the most difficult for a competitor to implement, then deferring implementing them until after they introduced Creative Cloud.

Wonder what phrases they will leave to posterity and lazy journos this time? Still find python isms every day. I.e, http://www.cmswire.com/cms/search/a-week-in-google-hes-not-a-search-company-hes-a-very-naughty-boy-014273.php

It could run on small insects fed on sugar drops and users wouldn't care - so touting it as an Android-powered device seems to be something Amazon is trying to avoid, this is purely a media consumption device... the same goes for the spec, users don't care as long as it feeds them content well. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/mobile/amazons-199-kindle-fire-to-spark-the-tablet-market-012847.php

With the amount of cash MS has, it isn't overpaying, and given the long term boost Skype can bring to PC, Xbox, Windows Phone 7 and enterprise departments, it has a lot more advantage to gain than eBay ever did. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-collaboration/enterprise-collaboration-microsoft-buys-skype-for-us-85-bil-011169.php

At least Amazon were up front about the failure and remedy for its service... Sony should be learning that lesson - fast! http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/the-aftermath-amazon-ec2-sony-playstation-network-recover-from-cloud-crashes-010954.php

Or, there's always that pesky IE9 upstart? But RockMelt (and FlocK) are at least trying to be brave and bold - PDFs are not a feature to brag about.

At least Google had the decency to Labs-launch it rather than blow every trumpet... http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-engagement/googles-1-makes-searching-more-social-010713.php

I've not seen the link saying that NFB is in Microsoft's pocket.

Just did a search on Slashdot for it, and looking over the last 30 stories about Open Document, I don't see anything about the National Federation of the Blind.

Didn't find it searching on google for national federation of the blind against open document.

Here are blind groups in favor of ODF

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/opendocument-odf-enhances-xml-accessibility-001107.php

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/sap-admits-liability-in-oracle-software-piracy-case-009028.php

The Oracle hatred distortion field seems to be blocking out this pertinent fact. Is there a way to disable it for 24 hours?

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/sap-admits-liability-in-oracle-software-piracy-case-009028.php

Can the obligatory /. defense for anything related to copyright infringement, unless of course it is related to the GPL.

Seems most of them found it quite hard to leave the mothership (however tenuous their relationship) http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/interview-how-libreoffice-broke-free-from-oracle-009202.php

Nah, I think the coders/devs/IT depts will see a world of money in upgrading all these old apps (think of it as the Millennium Bug Lite)

Plus, think of all the machine upgrades they can get away with in the name of system requirements and so on, its going to be a right old cake fest

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/coming-windows-7-update-heralds-death-of-ie6-finally-009013.php

In addition to j_l_cgull's posting, also

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-content/bing-makes-moves-to-comply-with-eu-anonymization-directive-does-google-006505.php [cmswire.com]

Google was the first to make this move of their own accord. If the EU forces Bing to anonymize data for EU users, that does nothing for users outside the EU.

Please cite references.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/060119-060352

It was kind of a big deal, but since many Slashdot editors only post stories insisting that Google is evil, it was somewhat overlooked on Slashdot.

That's not a privacy issue.

If you're looking to see which company protects its users, only Google has a positive track record here. However, if you only want to focus on privacy specifically, then Google has refused to hand over user data to China, where as Yahoo has. Again, Google is leading the pack on protecting users.

Until they use it it's not an issue

What? You're not concerned that Microsoft pursued the patent in the first place?

When Mozilla suggested users would be better off using Bing, they did so in the overwhelming face of evidence to the contrary.

Which company decided to anonymize their logs sooner to protect users? Oh, that would be Google.

In addition to j_l_cgull's posting, also

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-content/bing-makes-moves-to-comply-with-eu-anonymization-directive-does-google-006505.php

Which company handed over your personal data without a warrant? Oh, that would be Microsoft.

Please cite references.

Which company never objected to censoring results in China? Oh, that would be Microsoft.

That's not a privacy issue.

Which company just secured a new patent to sell your personal data to the highest bidder? Oh, that would be Microsoft.

Until they use it it's not an issue

Absolutely correct. However, I would take it a step further and say that you need a document management system that manages security, meta-data, retention, disposition, etc. Examples are Documentum, IBM FileNet P8, Alfresco, etc. Here's a place to start readin: http://www.cmswire.com/.

This is bullshit

julesh may well be right, wrong, or somewhere to the middle, left, or right of that. Civility helps others accept a point of view. My old-timer would tell me to, "wash your mouth out son".

The benchmark alluded to by julesh at (http://www.mindcraft.com/perfreports/nas/nas40-audit.html is for the Netscape Application Server. Nothing about PHP and Java there.

Here is a objective article referring to a presentation given by no less than a Director of Web Technologies at Sun, the Java bods. There is no bias for Java or PHP:
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/industry-news/php-vs-java-vs-ruby-000887.php/

...The reality is that there are a great number of ways to hone-in on the language or framework choice for a web application.
...the proponents of Java, PHP and Ruby are lighting the Internet aflame in defense of their platform of choice and at the same time nay-saying their fellow players. While very entertaining and sometimes educational to follow, not much is going to be gained from this bickering.
...The beauty of what we have today is that there ARE a great many choices out there, much more-so than even a few years ago.

Check out this presentation instead of the many spurious articles on the Internet and make the choice best suited for the application. There is no outright "king of the hill" any more. No sense in using Java when PHP is better and vice-versa.

While others flame, those who really know technology create the Java and PHP systems the flamers cannot.

What we have here is another usual question that all really depends on your project type. That being said, I'll try to break from the typical, slashdot format and attempt to address your question:

1. Maturity of Solution: 1st PHP5, then Ruby, then Cake. Shouldn't be a lot of controversy here. PHP has been around since the dinosaur age, ruby came around with all that slick don't repeate yourself talk and then cake came about and tried to add ruby like framework to PHP.
2. Features is really going to depend on what your looking for. Rails allows you to write a lot of fairly complex stuff quickly, cake arguably has better built in security, PHP5 will scale better then any of them.
3. Everybody and their mama knows php5, any new kid thats worth a darn is probably learning rails, and then there's cake, which has nowhere near the dev support of the other two.
4. Rails wins here if your starting from scratch, but since so many devs already have php experience, complexity becomes sort of relative.
5. For better or worse, if you were to poll most devs that are building commercial production apps (at least out of the three options mentioned) php5 is going to win hands down. For my company it was a simple decision that hinges on two of the points: scaling and experience. We wanted something to scale to slashdot numbers, while being able to hire a bunch of kids from college to help the dev team build it all. Typical of online startups, we wanted the most bang for the bucks, and php5 was the choice.

P.S. A similar question of Rails vs PHP vs Java question was somewhat subjectively discussed late last year http://www.cmswire.com/cms/industry-news/php-vs-ja va-vs-ruby-000887.php