Without a release, it’s all just talk and theory — no help to people who need to solve real problems. And to be frank, after two years, the talk is getting less and less interesting.

re drizzle, I’ve said it before in public and I will repeat it gladly:
I think it’s a great project, well worthy of attention with laudable goals.
However, until the first GA release everything’s a code-throwaway-frenzy, an exciting time of having ideas and implementing them without having to worry too much about breaking all sorts of things (features, performance, stability).
The hard part for the drizzle team will come after the 1.0 GA release, when all of a sudden you are held back because of compatibility concerns, the need for quick and dirty bug fixes arises, design problems are uncovered that would require a significant architecture change.

I sure hope the guys will make it over that hump, but until a 1.0 is out I have a heard time counting on drizzle in production. And I don’t say that to belittle them, they are friends and (were) respected colleagues of mine.